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. There (in the place of separation from Me), shall be weeping (for anguish), and gnashing of teeth (for despair), when ye shall see Abraham ... And they shall come from the east, and from the west ... See the note at Luke 7:9.
For Remarks on this section, see the notes at Matthew 7:13-29, Remarks 3, 4, 5, at the close of that section. But we may call attention to the two following points here standing out with special vividness:
(1) No nearness of external communion with Christ will avail at the Great Day, in place of that "holiness without which no man shall see the Lord."
(2) The style which Christ announces that He will then assume-that of absolute Disposer of men's eternal destinies-and contrast this with His "despised and rejected" condition when He uttered these words!