Well Jingle, we do have to comprehend the literal meaning first (even thought it's not a real event) before we can move on the grasp the higher spiritual meaning of a parable. So I tried to show what I felt was mean in the literal sense, the base meaning of the parable.
If you are looking at the spiritual application then as you were showing, then those things in the story become symbols that represent something else.
Luke 19:23 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?'
If we look at Jesus as the nobleman that went into a far country (verse 12), then I don't think He would be the bank, a worldly establishment. So these ten were called "His servants" (verse 13) and they were given minas or spiritual gifts, like you were saying, to use to serve the body of Christ.
1Cor 12:4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1Cor 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
1Cor 14:12 Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel.
But the "wicked servant" hid his minas/gift and did not use it to serve the body/church or anybody at all... could the "bank" be representative of the world? Did Christ mean if he wasn't going to use his gift to help the church, then he should have at least used it to help those in the world he knew? Because as the parable goes on the minas/gift was taken back and the wicked servant lost all he had in Christ then.
Luke 12:47 And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
mercy, peace and love
Kat