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The highways and hedges (tas hodous kai phragmous). The public roads outside the city of Judaism just as the streets and lanes were inside the city. The heathen are to be invited this time.
Hedges is fenced in places from phrassō, to fence in (Rom 3:19).
Compel (anagkason). First aorist active imperative of anagkazō, from anagkē (Luk 14:18). By persuasion of course. There is no thought of compulsory salvation. “Not to use force, but to constrain them against the reluctance which such poor creatures would feel at accepting the invitation of a great lord” (Vincent). As examples of such “constraint” in this verb, see note on Mat 14:22; Act 26:11; Gal 6:12.
That my house may be filled (hina gemisthēi mou ho oikos). First aorist passive subjunctive of gemizō, to fill full, old verb from gemō, to be full. Effective aorist. Subjunctive with hina in final clause. The Gentiles are to take the place that the Jews might have had (Rom 11:25). Bengel says: Nec natura nec gratia patitur vacuum.