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Luk 14:23. Φραγμοὺς, hedges) which are the house-walls of beggars [the only kind of houses they have.]-[εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς, into the highways) Pure unmixed paganism is hereby meant.-V. g.]-ἀνάγκασον εἰσελθεῖν, compel them to come in) It is not compulsion of every kind that is meant: for he who is altogether dragged or hurried by force cannot be said to come in [which implies a voluntary act]. Comp. the ἠνάγκασεν, Mat 14:22, “He constrained His disciples,” etc. [which does not mean physical force compulsion, but by urgent command induced]; 2Co 12:11; Gal 2:14; παραβιάζεσθαι, in Luk 24:29; Act 16:15. It was in altogether different ways that Saul, when mad with zeal for Judaism, compelled men, and Paul the servant of Jesus Christ compelled men. [The later the call is, the more strongly urgent in proportion is he; Luk 14:23, εἰπεῖν, say, Luk 14:17, εἰσάγαγε, bring in, Luk 14:21, ἀνάγκασον, compel, Luk 14:23, are in successive gradation (form an ascending climax).-V. g.]-γεμισθῇ, may be filled) Neither nature nor grace admits of a vacuum. The blessed ones form a multitude, which acquires the greatest portion of its fulness in the last periods of the world. [In consonance with this is the prophecy that Christ after “having seen the travail of His soul shall be satisfied,” Isa 53:11.-V. g.]