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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 22:13 - 22:13
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Then said the king to the servants - the angelic ministers of divine vengeance (as in Mat 13:41).
Bind him hand and foot - putting it out of his power to resist.
and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness - So Mat 8:12; Mat 25:30. The expression is emphatic - “the darkness which is outside.” To be “outside” at all - or, in the language of Rev 22:15, to be “without” the heavenly city, excluded from its joyous nuptials and gladsome festivities - is sad enough of itself, without anything else. But to find themselves not only excluded from the brightness and glory and joy and felicity of the kingdom above, but thrust into a region of “darkness,” with all its horrors, this is the dismal retribution here announced, that awaits the unworthy at the great day.
there - in that region and condition.
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. See on Mat 13:42.