The Parable of the Great Supper, Part 2
The first invitation to the feast, recounted in the parable, represents the first years of our Lord’s ministry, which were specially directed toward interesting the scribes and Pharisees and Doctors of the Law, who, as the leading men of that nation, and as our Lord said, occupying Moses’ seat, really represented that nation as a whole; and the rejection of the invitation by these meant the rejection of it by that nation as a whole. Thus our Lord was careful…