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THE MARRIAGE FEAST.
LESSON !, SECOND QUARTER IN
TERNATlONAL SERIES, APRIL /.

Verses 11-1i-Commcnt by Rev. ii. S.
Hoffman.
From Lesson Helper Quarterly, by permission
of II. $. Hoffman, Philadelphia, publisherl
Notes.-Made a marriage i. e., a marriage
feast Servants, the "inviters,n referring to
the prophets to the time of the Baptist
Call them that were hidden, anciently a
double call was given, first to give them time
to prepare and then to come. Made light of
it, in Greek same words as neglect, Heb ii,
3. Spitefully, showed their spite to the king
by treating his servants cruelty. Armies,
reference is made to the troops under Titus
Vespasian that destroyed Jerusalem. Not
worthy, the Jews who rejected Christ
Guests, the Gentiles. Wedding garment, a
robe was furnished by the host
There are essential differences between this
parable and the one in Luke xiv, 1924 In
the one only the infinite goodness and grace
of God appear; here judgment as well.
V. /. Jesus spoke this parable either in
answer to the spoken words or the inquiring
looks of the chief priests and Pharisees, whose
minds had been much stirred, Matt. xxi, A..
1t need not be assumed that he spoke num-
Der of parallels, but spoke in parabolic form.
V. 2. The royal parsonage is God the
Father. The kings son is the Saviour, who
would WOO and win the heart and hand of
humanity. All who requite his love are
united to him in eternal wedlock. The
guests are his people.
V. 3. The feast with all its bounty ready,
the servants are sent to call the hidden ones,
with the result that they would not come.
In the church militant there are to be
found the good and bad; but in the purified
church of heaven the bad will be expelled.
Inv hn,.n I, int ,l,a ctnto
of the wicked in eternity.
The chief priests and Pharisees here as in
the previous parable, must have perceived
that Jesus was again speaking of them, and
in verses 3 to I was abiding to the preaching
of the gospel by the prophets and John the
Baptist, who as the servants of the king, had
long preached, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand These verses contain
the gospel history to that time, with warn
ing or prophecy as to the fate of the hidden
ones and the doom of their country, the de-
struction of Jerusalem, as the consequence
of their treatment of the kings servants, and
their rejection of his message.
These priests and Pharisees, like their
&C Lnterparts of the present day, did not real
lie, and therefore did not even attempt to
live up to their privileges.
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