The highways and hedges (τας οδους κα φραγμους). The public roads outside the city of Judaism just as the streets and lanes were i…

Go out into the highways. Since enough people had not been found in the lanes and streets, he commands the servant to go into the roads—th…

The highways and hedges.—In the framework of the parable, this points to a still lower class of the population of an Eastern count…

"Bring in highway-men and hedge-birds, those that have no place to lay their heads; fetch them in by force if necessary, 'that my house may be …

Eusebius of Caesarea: Our Lord had just taught us to prepare our feasts for those who cannot repay, since we will have our …

The host “became angry” because the rejections were a personal insult. The “streets” were those roads traveled by a wide variety of people, whereas…

Compel them to come in. This expression means that the master of the house would give orders to use, as it were, force to ensure the atten…

And the Lord said unto the servant
A second time; that since the Jews put away the word of eternal life from them, a…

In this parable, observe the free grace and mercy of God shining in the gospel of Christ, which will be food and a feast for the soul of one who kn…