A dinner or a supper (αριστον η δειπνον). More exactly, a breakfast or a dinner with distinction between them as already shown. Th…

Call not your friends, etc. This is not to be understood as commanding us not to entertain at all our relatives and friends; rath…

A dinner or a supper.—The two words were used respectively for the morning and the evening meal—the former, like the Cont…

Our Saviour, you see, keeps to one line of instruction. It was a feast, so he used the feast to teach another lesson.

It is always well, whe…

Theophylact of Ohrid: Since a supper is composed of two parties—the invited and the inviter—and having already exhorted the…

Having addressed the Pharisee’s guests, Jesus turns to his host and speaks words resembling 6:32–36 (see comments). In view of one’s ultimate rewar…

When thou makest a dinner. Those who think that this is an absolute condemnation of entertainments given by relatives and friends to each …

Then said he also to him that invited him
As he had given advice and instructions to the guests, so he likewise thou…

Even in the common actions of life, Christ marks what we do, not only in our religious assemblies, but at our tables. We see in many cases that a m…