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Luk 13:28. Ἐκεῖ, there) in that place, to which ye shall be commanded to depart. [See that thou dost in due time reflect on that a “terror of the Lord,” lest hereafter thou shouldest in actual fact be forced to know it by bitter experience.-V. g.]-ὄψησθε) when ye shall see, but not taste [their blessedness]. A sight full of misery. See ch. Luk 16:23. The ungodly, on the contrary, shall be a festive sight to the saints:[132] Isa 66:23-24.-Ἀβραὰμ, Abraham) The patriarchs and all the prophets looked to Christ; and whosoever do not follow their faith, shall not recline at the heavenly feast with them.-πάντας, all) All the prophets were saints. The Jews used to boast themselves of these, though their fathers had rejected them. There is here, as also in Luk 13:29, a softening down of the apprehension which the ‘fewness’ of the saved might create: see Luk 13:23.-βασιλείᾳ, the kingdom) Luk 13:29.-ἐκβαλλομένους, persons who are being cast out) The Present. The weeping shall forthwith begin.
[132] “They shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against Me, for their worm shall not die,” etc. Their will shall be so entirely one with God’s, that they shall rejoice in the destruction and punishment of God’s enemies; Rev 14:10, at the end, Luk 11:17-18, Luk 15:3-4, Luk 18:20.-ED. and TRANSL.