...this deliberate insult, nothing remains but to bind him hand and foot and cast him outside the palace into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Many receive the mandate to come to the feast, few comparatively obey the summons. It suspends...

...Every plant not divinely sanctioned (notably the Pharisees) will be rooted up (l5:l3). Even the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth (8:l2). The latter phrase is a favorite of Matthew,57 which recurs...

...enter into the kingdom to reign with Christ. According to Matthew 22:13 and 25:30, these will be cast into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. In summary, today's Christendom is composed of both false Christians and real Christians. The...

...experience until we know what is involved. Those at the wedding feast without the garment were cast into "outer darkness", where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt. 22:13). So, foiling to understand this requirement tends to encourage a laxity in day to day living,...

...excludes the one without a wedding garment, the one without the fruits of the kingdom. He is then cast out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth — a frequent ending to Matthew's judgment parables.10 Salvation history has reached its completion.11...

...corrective to the imagery, compared with the way it had been used up to that point, occurs in Matt. 8:1 If: "Many will come from east and west and will eat with...the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness." After this, never again was Judaism able to forget that the rule of God at the end of time would also...

...will sit (26a) with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, while children of the kingdom will truly be cast forth into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matt. 8 [1 1-12]). Also in the Gospel of John [10:16], Jesus speaks more clearly about the gathering together...

...season (Matt. 21:18, 19)? How divine is the message that says for your finite failings you will be cast into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt. 25:30)? If the Bible is read literally, it must be said that Jesus seems to have accepted without question...

...the Bible use imagery that suggests an active consigning of people to hell? It surely does. Sinners will be thrown "into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Mt 8:12), and the wicked will be "thrown into the lake of fire" (Rev 20:15). But it's important...

...he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ' 14 For many are called, but few are chosen. " Many questions arise after a first reading....