What did the giver of the feast declare respecting those who refused to attend?
“That none of those men which were bidden shall taste my supper” ([xiv, 24]).
As they had already declined to do so, the force of the interdiction is not apparent.
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Relate the circumstances connected with the attendance of the guest who wore no wedding garment.
Matthew: “Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.... And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment; and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless” ([xxii, 8–12]).
The relator of this incident, which is omitted by Luke, would have us suppose that the frequenters of the highways went clad in wedding garments.
The parables of Jesus are declared to be perfect models of Literary composition, and filled with lessons of divine wisdom. A few of them possess some literary merit; but the most of them are faulty. They contain many questionable ethical teachings; they are illogically constructed; the imagery is unnatural, and the language crude.