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Relatedly, talent is often described as God-given, which is another way of saying that talent is something that someone’s born with. The talents in the story are widely interpreted as representing natural abilities, with the moral being that you should use your abilities for good instead of hiding them. Two of the servants invest the money and make him a profit, but a third servant just buries it and returns it when the boss gets back. At some point in its history, the meaning of talent evolved from “money” to “ability.” This change is thought to have been strongly influenced by a passage from the New Testament of the Bible often called the “Parable of the Talents.” In this story from the Gospel of Matthew, a rich guy entrusts his servants with his talents (money) while he’s away. It derives from the Greek tálanton, which referred to a unit of money or weight. I just cold punched him in the face.Talent goes back to at least the 900s. When it comes to playing ball that boy is cold! Submitted by Demetrius Scruggs from FL, USA