There shall be weeping, &c. Here he repeats what he had said when he commended the centurion's faith. See on Matthew 8:11-12. As if he said, How little soever you may now regard it, the awful word, Depart from me, &c., will wound you to the heart, and throw you into agonies of everlasting despair, attended with the bitterest weeping and gnashing of teeth For madness and rage; when you shall see Abraham, &c. Your holy ancestors; and all the prophets Of the succeeding ages; in the kingdom of God Actually possessed of God's kingdom of glory; and shall find yourselves thrust out Rejected and excluded with just contempt and indignation. And they shall come from the east, &c. From the most distant heathen lands; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God In rejoicing and admiring multitudes, to partake of the heavenly banquet with your pious ancestors, while you are utterly and for ever excluded from it. Here, therefore, as well as in Matthew, our Lord plainly affirms that many others, besides Jews, shall be saved. And there are last There are many who are now last in point of religious advantages, that shall then be first in honour and happiness; and there are first, &c. Many who now appear first in the enjoyment of privileges, which, on account of the abuse thereof, shall be last Shall appear as the most infamous and miserable of mankind. See on Matthew 19:30; Matthew 20:16.
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Luke 13:28-30
28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.