I do not think that we can build on this contrast between the few and the many any speculation that the final number of God's redeemed will be small. How to reconcile these two concepts I do not know. Nor am I clear how this passage relates to the perplexing problem of those who have never heard the gospel. We shall be wise, therefore, not to preoccupy our minds with such speculative questions, as on another occasion Jesus himself implied. But he declined to satisfy their curiosity.
People like to be uncommitted.
Men are lovers of Aristotle and of his golden mean. The most popular path is the via media . Everybody resents being faced with the necessity of a choice. But Jesus will not allow us to escape it.