Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Luke 13:28,29

Luke 13:28-29. See on Matthew 8:11-12. The connection here is different: the Jews are directly addressed, as those who shall be cast out, while their ancestors and the Gentiles shall enter in.

There, i.e., in that place. The reference to a future state throughout seems obvious enough.

Cast forth without. Those not admitted are thus spoken of, because as Jews they were born in the covenant. Luke 13:29 represents the ingathering of the Gentiles. It is fanciful to discover a reference to the progress of successful missionary effort from east to south is referred to. Our Lord does not say ‘many' here, as in Matthew 8:11, since this would have been too direct an answer to the question (Luke 13:23). He would make prominent, not the number, but that those addressed, confident in their Jewish position, were in the greatest danger of not being saved.

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Luke 13:28,29

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