the third servant in matthew's version was condemned as "wicked and lazy", for he should have deposited the talent he received with the bankers (, "trapezitais", literally, table or counter-keepers, just as bankers were originally those who sat at their "bancum", or bench). the cambridge bible for schools and colleges notes that this was "the very least the slave could have done, [as] to make money in this way required no personal exertion or intelligence", and johann bengel commented that the labour of digging a hole and burying the talent was greater than the labour involved in going to the bankers.