John Calvin Commentary Luke 13:28

"There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth without." — Luke 13:28 (ASV)

When you will see Abraham. The Jews bore no resemblance to the holy fathers, and had no right to boast of being descended from them; yet nothing was more customary than to abuse the title of the Church.⁴⁷⁴ Christ here assures them that a bastard race, which has departed from the faith and piety of the fathers, has “no inheritance in the kingdom of God,” (Ephesians 5:5).

There is a silent but implied reproof. Those who desired to have companions in seeking salvation did not strive to associate themselves with Abraham, and the prophets, and the holy fathers; instead, they looked around among their contemporaries, who had degenerated greatly from their example into innumerable corruptions.

“If you neglect (says he) to enter by the strait gate, because you are kept back by the great number of those who are going astray, do you not see that you are separated from the number of believers and become involved with unbelievers?”

If the aspect of the world now dazzles your eyes, the last day will cure you of this folly, but it will be too late; for you will then know that you, and others like you, are excluded from the kingdom of God and have no part with Abraham.

⁴⁷⁴ “Et avoyent tousjours en la bouche le titre d'Eglise, duquel ils abu- soyent;” — “and had always in their mouth the title of Church, which they abused.”;” — “and had always in their mouth the title of Church, which they abused.”