Luke 14:24

I say unto you, that none, &c.— See the interpretation of the parable, Matthew 22 to which nothing need be added, except the explication of a circumstance mentioned here, which is not in the parable as it was then delivered, namely, the two distinct calls; first, to those in the streets and lanes of the city, and then to those in the highways and hedges; the former are supposed to be the Gentile proselytes, to whom the gospel was preached after it was rejected by the Jews; the latter are the idolatrous Gentiles, who had the gospel offered to them last of all. The circumstance too, in the present verse, is wanting in the repetition of the parable, Matthew 22. The thing signified by it is, that because the Jews rejected Jesus and his apostles, they were given over by God to a hardened and reprobate mind: only the reader must remember, that not the condition of individuals, but the general state of the nation is here described; in which view the parabolical representation is perfectly just, notwithstanding many individual Jews believed in Jesus, and obtained eternal