26. We have eaten and drunk They had perhaps partaken of his miraculous feedings with the five thousand. In thy presence At the same table, so as to be acquaintances. Taught in our streets We have heard thee preach. Our Lord here slightly changes the man from householder to preacher; that is, from his parabolic to his real self. read more
27. Workers of iniquity The word workers here signifies hired operatives. He charges them, therefore, with being the paid fabricators and labourers of wickedness. The householder has entirely disappeared; and in the following verse the house has become a kingdom, the kingdom of heaven. read more
29. They shall come At the final consummation. For few as the Lord finds the number of the saved now to be, yet when the earthly history of the race closes, immense will be the number gathered from all points of the compass, constituting, perhaps, the vast majority of mankind. The points of the compass are given in their usual order; but it is something of a coincidence that they follow the course in which the Gospel seems in human history to proceed. read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 13:25-30
25-30. The exclusion of sinners from heaven is here compared to the exclusion of night wanderers from a hospitable house. read more