<p>16:6 <i>And he said: A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him: Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty</i>- See on Lk. 14:5. &quot;Quickly&quot; is the essence of all this; knowing that our judgment is just around the corner, there is no time to be lost in forgiving others. The steward reduced the debt rather than totally writing it off. That may be merely the furniture of the parable, but perhaps we are left to imagine that the further he reduced the debt, the more likely they were to later accept him as a family member (:4). And maybe we are intended to deduce that he would have been better to offer them a total forgiveness rather than some negotiated settlement.</p>