Matthew 18:32 — ExegesisTAB

The narrative advances with the adverb tote {τότε | tó-te}, situating this action after the preceding context. The aorist middle participle proskalesamenos {προσκαλεσάμενος | pros-ka-le-Sá-me-nos} functions temporally, “after summoning him,” just before the main verb legei {λέγει | lé-gei}, “he says.” The subject is ho kyrios autou {ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ | ho ký-ri-os au-toû}, where the genitive autou marks possession. The dative auto {αὐτῷ | au-tôi} indicates the indirect object of the speech. The vocative doule ponere {δοῦλε πονηρέ | doû-le po-nē-ré} delivers a moral rebuke. The object of apheka {ἀφῆκά | a-phê-ka} is the phrase pasan ten opheilen ekeinēn {πᾶσαν τὴν ὀφειλήν ἐκείνην | pâ-san tḕn o-phei-lḗn e-keí-nēn}, which highlights the totality through pasan and ekeinēn. The conjunction epei parekalesas me {ἐπεὶ παρεκάλεσάς με | e-peí pa-re-ká-le-sás me} introduces the cause of the release. English renders the temporal participle with a finite clause and keeps the causal epei as “because.”