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Mat_8:12. The sons of the kingdom: the Jews, in so far as, according to the divine promise, they have the right, as the theocratic people, to the Messiah’s kingdom (Joh_4:22; Rom_9:4-5; Rom_11:16 f.), and are, in consequence, its potential subjects. The article describes them, summarily, in a body, υἱός , áÌÅï , as denoting physical or moral relationship, Winer, p. 223 [E. T. 298]. The true υἱοὶ τ . βας ., who are so in point of fact, see Mat_13:38.
τὸ ἐξώτερον ] which is outside the (illuminated) Messianic banqueting hall. Wetstein on this passage, comp. on ἐξώτερος , LXX. Exo_26:4; Exo_36:10; Eze_10:5; not found in Greek authors. For the thing, see Mat_22:13, Mat_25:30. It is not some special degree of infernal punishment that is represented to us (Grotius), but the punishments themselves, and that as poena damni et sensus at once.
ὁ κλαυθμὸς … ὀδόντων ] indicating the wail of suffering, and the gnashing of teeth that accompanies despair. The article points to the well-known ( κατʼ ἐξοχήν ) misery reigning in hell (Mat_13:42; Mat_13:50, Mat_22:13, Mat_24:51, Mat_25:30). Found in Luke only at Mat_13:28, where the same expression occurs on a different occasion,—a circumstance which is not in Luke’s favour (de Wette, Gfrörer), but is to be explained from the fact that Jesus made frequent use of the figure of the Messianic reclining at table, and of the expression regarding the infernal κλαυθμός , etc.