So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Ver. 16. So the last shall be first, &c.] This is the purport of the preceding parable. Application is the life of preaching.
Few are chosen] It is a strange speech of Chrysostom, in his fourth sermon to the people of Antioch, where he was much beloved and did much good. How many, think you, shall be saved in this city? It will be a hard speech to you, but I will speak it: though there be so many thousand of you, yet there cannot be found a hundred that shall be saved, and I doubt about them too; for what villany is there in youth! what sloth in old men! and so he goes on. Non arbitror inter sacerdotes multos esse qui salvi flaunt. Chrysost. hom. 3. in Act. See Trapp on " Mat 7:14 "