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september 30th, 2023

9/30/2023

This Sunday is the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost in most churches, and the gospel reading for many is from Matthew 21:23-27 (with the option of also including verses 28-32). But in the writings which you have here, we are at a different pace, and what we are covering this time is usually considered chapter 25 in the Gospel according to Matthew. This will finish up the last section of the fifth and last sermon of Jesus within this gospel account.

What follows is an attempt at a somewhat-literal translation of that chapter (and you may wish to compare it to other translations and/or look at the notes in a study bible; these are some important ‘last words’—in more than one way):

[Jesus said:] “Then it will be compared, the kingdom of the heavens, to ten virgins, who, having taken the lamps of themselves, they went out into a meeting of the bridegroom. Now five of them were foolish and five, wise. For the foolish, having taken the lamps of them, not they took with themselves oil. Now the wise took oil in the vessels with the lamps of themselves. Now delaying, the bridegroom, they slumbered, all, and they slept. Now of middle of night, a shout happened: ‘Behold, the bridegroom; come out into a meeting of him.’ Then they rose, all the virgins, those, and they trimmed the lamps of themselves. Now the foolish, to the wise they said, ‘Give to us from the oil of you, because the lamps of us being extinguished.’ Now they answered, the wise, saying, ‘Probably not, certainly not it suffices for us and for you; go rather to the ones selling and buy for yourselves.’ Now going away, they, to buy, he came, the bridegroom, and the ready ones went into, with him, into the wedding festivities, and it was shut, the door. Now later, they come, also, the remaining virgins, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ Now he, having answered, he said, ‘Amen, I am saying to you, not I know you.’ Therefore, watch, because not you know the day nor the hour.”

“For just like a man, going abroad, he called the own slaves, and he handed over to them the belongings of him, and to one, on the one hand, he gave five talents, to one, on the other hand, two, on the other hand, one, to each according to his own power, and he went abroad. Immediately, having gone, the one, the five talents having received, he traded with them, and he gained others, five. Likewise, the one, the two, he gained others, two. Now the one, the one having received, having gone off, he dug earth, and he hid the silver of the lord of him. Now after much time, he comes, the lord of the slaves, those, and he settles a word with them. And having approached, the one, the five talents having received, he brought forward other five talents, saying, ‘Lord, five talents to me you handed over; behold, other five talents I gained.’ He said to him, the lord of him, ‘Well, slave; good and faithful; over a few things you were faithful, over many, you, I will appoint. Enter into the joy of the lord of you.’ Now having approached also, the one, the two talents, he said, ‘Lord, two talents to me you handed over; behold other two talents I gained.’ He said to him, the lord of him, ‘Well, slave; good and faithful; over a few things you were faithful, over many, you, I will appoint. Enter into the joy of the lord of you.’ Now having approached, also, the one, the one talent having received, he said, ‘Lord, I knew you, that a hard, you are, man, harvesting where not you sowed, and gathering where not you scattered. And having feared, having gone away, I hid the talent of you in the earth; behold, you have, the yours.’ Now having answered, the lord of him, he said to him, ‘Evil slave and lazy, you knew that I harvest where not I sowed, and I gather where not I scattered? Therefore, it was necessary, you, to throw the silvers of me to the bankers, and having come, I myself would have received, the mine thing, with interest. Therefore, take from him the talent, and give to the one having the ten talents.’ For to the one having, everyone, it will be given, and he will have abundance. Now of the one not having, even what he has, it will be taken from him. And the useless slave, throw out into the darkness, the outer; there it will be, the wailing and the gnashing of the teeth.”

“Now when he comes, the Son of the Man, in the glory of him, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon a throne of glory of him; and they will be gathered together before him, all the nations, and he will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will set the, on the one hand, sheep from right of him, on the other hand, the goats from left. Then he will say, the king, to the ones from right of him, ‘Come, the ones having been blessed of the Father of me, inherit the having been prepared for you, a kingdom from foundation of world. For I hungered, and you gave me to eat; I thirsted, and you gave drink to me; a stranger I was, and you gathered together me; naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; in prison I was, and you came to me. Then they will answer him, the righteous, saying, ‘Lord, when, you, we saw being hungry and fed, or being thirsty and gave drink? Now when, you, we saw, a stranger and gathered together, or naked and clothed? Now when, you, we saw being ill or in prison and we came to you?’ And having answered, the king, he will say to them, ‘Amen, I am saying to you, upon as much you did to one of these, the brothers of me, the least, to me you did.’ Then he will say also to the ones from left, ‘Go from me, the having been cursed ones, into the fire, the eternal, the one having been prepared for the devil and the angels of him. For I hungered, and not you gave me to eat; I thirsted, and not you gave drink to me; a stranger I was, and not you gathered together me; naked and not you clothed me, ill and in prison and not you visited me. Then they themselves will answer also, saying, ‘Lord, when you, we saw hungering or thirsting or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison and not we did minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Amen, I am saying to you, upon as much not you did to one of these, the least, neither to me you did.’ And they will go away, these, into punishment, eternal; now the righteous, into life eternal.”

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September 23rd, 2023

9/23/2023

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In some congregations this Sunday is called the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, and the gospel reading for this Sunday is Matthew 20:1-16. We are making our way through that same gospel account, but at a different pace, as it has been laid out. And we are just a bit farther along than the text for this Sunday. We are beginning the last of the five major sermons in this gospel account, what is more commonly known as chapters twenty-four and twenty-five. This last sermon deals with the last days, and Jesus gave this sermon during some of his last days on the earth, before his crucifixion and resurrection. But there is a special emphasis in this sermon on the words of Jesus, and these words will ring true until the VERY end of all things, and then there will be a new heaven and new earth.

What follows is an attempt at a somewhat-literal translation of what is usually called chapter 24 of this gospel account (you may wish to compare it to other translations):

And having come out, the Jesus, from the temple, he was going; and they approached, the disciples of him, to show him the buildings of the temple. Now the One, having answered, he said to them, “You do see these things, all, do you not? Amen, I am saying to you, certainly not, it will be left here, a stone upon a stone, which not will be destroyed.”

Now sitting, he, upon the Mount of the Olives, they approached him, the disciples, according to their own, saying, “Tell to us, when these things will be, and what the sign of the Parousia and of a completion of the age?”

And having answered, the Jesus, he said to them, “See not anyone, you, he leads astray. For many will come upon the name of me, saying, ‘I, myself, am the Christ, and many they will lead astray. Now you are about to hear wars and rumors of wars; see not, you are disturbed; for it is necessary to happen, but on the contrary, not yet is the end. For it will be raised, nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes throughout places; now all these things, beginning of birth-pangs.”

“Then they will deliver you into affliction, and they will kill you, and you will be, being hated by all the nations on account of the name of me. And then they will be scandalized, many, and one another they will deliver over, and they will hate one another; and many pseudoprophets will be raised, and they will lead astray many; and because of, to be increased, the lawlessness, it will grow cold, the love of the many. Now the one having endured into end, this one will be saved. And it will be proclaimed, this, the gospel of the kingdom, in all the inhabited earth, into a testimony to all the nations, and then it will come, the End.”

“Therefore, when you see the abomination of the desolation, the having been spoken through Daniel, the prophet, standing in place, holy, the one reading, let him understand; then the ones in the Judea, let them flee into the mountains, the one upon the housetop, not let him come down, to take the things out of the house of him, and the one in the field, not let him turn around behind, to take the garment of him. Now woe to the ones, in womb having, and to the ones nursing in those, the days; now pray that not it happens, the flight of you, of winter, and not on a Sabbath; for it will be, then, affliction, great, such as not has happened from beginning of world until the now, neither certainly not it will happen. And if not, they were cut short, the days, those, not would be saved, all flesh; now on account of the chosen, they will be cut short, the days, those.”

“Then, if anyone to you says, ‘Behold, here the Christ, or here,’ do not believe; for they will be raised, pseudo-Christs and pseudoprophets, and they will give signs, great and wonders, so that, to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen. Behold, I have before-told you. Therefore, if they say to you, ‘Behold, in the desert he is,’ do not go out; ‘Behold, in the private rooms,’ do not believe. For as the lightning goes out from east, and it shines until west, so it will be, the Parousia of the Son of the Man. Wherever it may be, the corpse, there they will be assembled, the eagles.”

“Now immediately, after the affliction of the days, those, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give the light of it, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then it will appear, the sign of the Son of the Man in heaven, and then will bewail all the tribes of the earth, and they will see the Son of the Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven with power and glory, much; and he will send out the angels of him with trumpet, great, and they will assemble, the chosen of him, out of the four winds from ends of heavens unto the ends of them. Now from the fig tree, learn the parable: when already the branch of it becomes tender and the leaves it sprouts, you know that near, the summer; thus also you, yourselves, when you see all these things, you know that near, the summer; so also you, when you see all these things, you know that near, he is, upon doors. Amen, I am saying to you that certainly not it will pass away, the generation, this, until all these things happen. The heaven and the earth will pass away, now the words of me certainly not will pass away.”

“Now concerning the day, that, and hour, no one knows, neither the angels of the heavens, nor the Son, except the Father only. For as the days of the Noah, so it will be, the Parousia of the Son of the Man. For as they were in the days, those, the ones before the Cataclysm, eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until which day he entered, Noah, into the ark, and not they knew until it came, the Cataclysm, and it took all, so it will be also, the Cataclysm of the Son of the Man. Then two, they will be in the field; one, he is taken away, and one, he is left; two grinding in the mill; one, she is taken away, and one, she is left. Therefore, watch, because not you know which day the Lord of you, he is coming. Now that, know, that if he knew, the house-despot, in what watch the thief is coming, he would have watched and not would have allowed to be dug through the house of him. On account of this, also you, be ready, because in which, not you think, an hour, the Son of the Man is coming. Who then is the faithful slave and wise, whom he appointed, the lord over the household of him, to give to them the food in time?”

“Blessed, the slave, that, whom, having come, the lord of him, he will find so doing. Amen, I am saying to you that over all the belongings of him, he will appoint him. Now if he says, the evil slave, that, in the heart of him, ‘He is delaying, of me, the lord,’ and he begins to strike the fellow-slaves of him, now he eats, also drinks, with the ones being drunk; he will come, the lord of the slave, that, in a day on which not he expects, and in an hour which not he knows, and he will cut in two, him, and the portion of him with the hypocrites he will place; there it will be, the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.”

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September 16th, 2023

9/16/2023

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This Sunday is usually called the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, the gospel reading for this Sunday [Matthew 18:21-35] follows after the last week’s reading, and the writing that we will look at this time follows immediately after the last writing.

We will be looking at what is usually called chapter 23 of what is known as the Gospel according to Matthew (but if people are too busy, they just say ‘Matthew’). Jesus has been doing a lot of talking in this account. And the tension between Jesus and his enemies has increased to the point where they were essentially speechless. But Jesus keeps on talking. And you will see some talking that details the tension.

The following is an attempt at a somewhat-literal translation (which is hopefully helpful to understand the various emphases that happen; you may wish to compare it to other translations that may have some study notes, or at least to a translation that is much more understandable; the word ‘woe’ is difficult to translate; you may wish to think of it as involving some intense pain):

Then the Jesus was speaking to the crowds and to the disciples of him, saying, “Upon the, of Moses, seat, they sat, the scribes and the Pharisees. Therefore, all things whatever they tell you, do and keep, now according to the works of them, do not do, for they say and do not do. Now they bind burdens, heavy, and they put on, upon the shoulders of the men, now they, with the finger of them, are not willing to move them. Now all the works of them, they do, in order to be seen by the men, for they broaden the phylacteries of them and lengthen the fringes; now they love the first-place in the banquets and the first-seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by the men, ‘Rabbi’.”

“Now you, not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for One, he is, of you, the teacher; now all you, brothers, you are. And father, not you call, of you, on the earth, for One, he is, of you, the Father, the heavenly. And neither of you be called, ‘Teachers’, because teacher of you, he is One, the Christ. Now the greater of you will be your servant. Now whoever will exalt himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

“Now woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of the heavens before the men, for you, yourselves not you enter, nor the ones entering you let to enter.” [Verse 14 is in some manuscripts.]

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites, because you go around the sea and the dry ground, to make one proselyte, and when he becomes, you make him a son of Gehenna, double-more than you.”

“Woe to you, leaders, blind, the ones saying: ‘Whoever swears in the temple, nothing it is; now whoever swears in the gold of the temple, he owes.’ Fools and blind ones, for which greater is, the gold or the temple, the thing sanctifying the gold? And ‘Whoever swears in the altar, nothing it is; now whoever swears in the gift, the one upon it, he owes.’ Blind ones, for which, greater, the gift or the altar, the thing sanctifying the gift? Therefore, the one having sworn in the altar swears in it, and in everything, the things upon it; and the one having sworn in the temple swears in it and in the one inhabiting it. And the one having sworn in the heaven swears in the throne of the God and in the One sitting upon it.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites, because you tithe the mint and the dill and the cumin, and you left the heavier things of the law, the judgment, and the mercy, and the faith; now these things it is necessary to do and those, not to leave. Leaders, blind, the ones straining the gnat, now the camel, swallowing.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites, because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, now within they are full of robbery and intemperance. Pharisees, blind, cleanse first the inside of the cup, that it may become, also the outside of it, clean.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites, because you resemble graves having been whitewashed, which outwardly, on the one hand, appear beautiful, on the other hand, within, they are full of bones of dead ones and of all uncleanness. So also you, outwardly, on the one hand, appear to the men, righteous, on the other hand, within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites, because you build the graves of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and you say, ‘If we were in the days of the fathers of us, not we would of them, in koinonia in the blood of the prophets. So you witness to yourselves that sons, you are, of the ones having killed the prophets. And you, yourselves, fulfill the measure of the fathers of you. Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should you escape from the judgment of the Gehenna? On account of this, behold, I, myself, send out to you prophets and sophists and scribes; of them you will kill, and you will crucify, and of them you will scourge in the synagogues of you, and you will persecute from city into city. So that it may come on you, all blood, righteous, being shed upon the earth from the blood of Abel, the righteous, until the blood of Zechariah, son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Amen, I am saying to you, they will come, these things, all, upon the generation, this.”

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning the ones having been sent out to her; how often I wanted to gather the children of you, which manner a hen gathers the baby birds, her, under the wings, and not you wanted. Behold, it is left to you, the house of you, a wilderness. For I am saying to you, certainly not me, you see, from now until you say, ‘Blessed, the one coming in name of Lord.’

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September 9th, 2023

9/9/2023

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The season of Pentecost continues on, and we are currently at what is usually called the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (with the Gospel reading of Matthew 18:1-20). Most currently, with the writings on this website, we are going through the entire Gospel according to Matthew, as it was laid out many centuries ago, a little at a time.

We are at a point where the tension has heightened between Jesus and his enemies. It was seen in the writing of last week, and it is in this one as well. And this heightening is especially found near the historical presents (when something like a past tense verb is expected but a present tense verb is given; these special words will appear in bold print). The following is an attempt at a somewhat-literal translation (of Matthew 22:15-46), continuing on from where we left off with the last writing:

Then, having gone, the Pharisees, counsel they took, how him they should trap in a word. And they send out to him the disciples of them with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that true, you are, and the way the of the God, in truth you teach, and not it concerns you about no one, for not you look into a face of men; therefore, say to us, what to you it seems? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?”

Now, knowing, the Jesus, the evil of them, he said, “Why me, you tempt, hypocrites? Show me the money of the tribute.” Now they brought to him a denarius. And he says to them, “Whose the image, this, and the epigraph?”

They say to him, “Of Caesar.”

Then he says to them, “Therefore, give away the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of the God to the God.” And having heard, they marveled, and having left him, they went away.

In that, the day, they approached him, Sadducees, saying not to be a resurrection, and they questioned him, saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If anyone dies, not having children, he shall marry as next of kin, the brother of him, the wife of him, and he shall raise up seed for the brother of him.’ Now there were, among us, seven brothers; and the first, having married, he died, and not having a seed, he left the wife of him to the brother of him; likewise, also, the second and the third, until the seven. Now, last of all, she died, the woman. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose of the seven will she be wife? For all had her.”

Now having answered, the Jesus, he said to them, “You err, not knowing the writings nor the power of the God. For in the resurrection, neither they marry nor they are given in marriage, but on the contrary, as angels in the heavens they are. Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, you did read, did you not, the thing having been said to you by the God, saying, ‘I myself am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’? Not he is the God of dead, but on the contrary, of living.” And having heard, the crowds, they were pounded out upon the teaching of him.

Now the Pharisees, hearing that he muzzled the Sadducees, they were assembled upon the same, and he questioned, one of them, a law-man, tempting him, “Teacher, which commandment, great in the law?”

Now the One said to him, “’You will love, Lord, the God of you, in all the heart of you and in all the soul of you and in all the intelligence of you.’ This is the great and first commandment. Now, second, like it: ‘You will love the neighbor of you as yourself.’ In these, the two commandments, all the law hangs, and the prophets.” Now having been assembled, the Pharisees, he questioned them, the Jesus, saying, “What to you it seems, concerning the Christ? Whose Son is he?”

They say to him, “Of the David.”

He says to them, “Therefore, how David, in Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’ saying, ‘He said, Lord, to the Lord of me, “Sit from right of me until I put the enemies of you under the feet of you”’? Therefore, if David calls him Lord, how, son of him, is he?” And no one was able to answer him a word, nor dared anyone, from that, the day, to question him no more.

It is interesting that there is a ‘then’ at the start of the text above, then there is the time reference to ‘that day’ later in the text, then at the end of that scenario, after Jesus pushes back a bit, there is another mention of ‘that day’ (and both times are in a way that seems a bit emphatic, with the word ‘that’ before the word ‘day’), and then the enemies of Jesus do not question him anymore. This seems to be an important day.

Perhaps, combined with the importance of ‘that day’, is the importance of the phrase in the historical present that the Pharisees ‘send out’. This is a translation of the word very similar to the word ‘apostle’. Jesus had his apostles, and it seems that his enemies have theirs as well. And this is the day that those other apostles are sent out. This seems to be the day that they try to win the war over Jesus. And this is the day that they lose.

Since words are not working, it seems that some serious actions are ahead. And Jesus already had hinted as to what was ahead of him—and his followers—with the mention of suffering and even a cross (see Matthew 16:21, 24). He knows exactly where things are headed as far as actions go. But, as we will see in the writing for next week, Jesus does not abandon his use of words. And that is a good reminder of what things are like today.

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September 2nd, 2023

9/2/2023

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The season of Pentecost continues, and we are currently at what is usually called the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (with the Gospel reading from Matthew 16:21-28, and it follows the previous week). Most currently, with the writings on this website, we are going through the entire Gospel according to Matthew, as it was laid out many centuries ago, and one text follows the previous one.

Within these past chapters, there has been an increased tension between Jesus and the religious leaders. In the section below, there is a desire on the part of the chief priests and Pharisees to ‘seize’ Jesus (21:46). Right after the text below, there is the desire by the Pharisees to take counsel and ‘trap’ Jesus in a word. This is a seizing by means of words.

The text below is mainly a set of parables that Jesus gave at this point. A simple explanation of a parable has been ‘a worldly story with a heavenly meaning’. Somewhat more important is the point that the parables of Jesus drive the believers closer to him and the non-believers farther away. At the start of the text, Jesus is talking to the chief priests and the elders of the people (see 21:23). The verbs in bold print (the historical presents—when a verb should be in something like the past, but it appears in the present) also appear at points of confrontation and help to point out the heightening of this tension. These are the things with which Jesus had to deal, especially as the God-man when he was dealing with the sins of his people.

Words are important. Words have been important from day one, literally. And to help keep that emphasis on the words, the following text is in a somewhat-literal translation (and is from Matthew 21:28-22:14):

[Jesus said]: “Now what to you does it seem? A man had children, two; and having approached the first, he said: ‘Child, go today; work in the vineyard.’ Now he, having answered, said, ‘Not I want.’ Now later, having repented, he went out. Now having approached the other, he said likewise. Now he, having answered, said, ‘I, Lord; and not he went out. Which of the two did the will of the father?”

They say, “The first.”

He says to them, the Jesus: “Amen, I am saying to you that the tax-collectors and the prostitutes are going before you into the kingdom of the God. For he came, John, toward you in a way of righteousness, and not you believed him. Now the tax-collectors and the prostitutes believed him. Now you, having seen, not repented, later, to believe him.”

“Another parable, hear. A man there was, a house-despot, who planted a vineyard, and a fence, it, he put around, and he dug in it a winepress, and he built a tower, and he let out it to tenant farmers, and he went abroad. Now when it came near, the time of the fruits, he sent out the slaves of him toward the tenant farmers, to receive the fruits of him. And having taken, the tenant farmers, the slaves of him, the one, on the one hand, they flogged, the one, on the other hand, they killed, the one, on the other hand, they stoned. Again, he sent out other slaves, more than the first, and they did to them likewise. Now later he sent out toward them the son of him, saying, ‘They will respect the son of me.’ Now the tenant farmers, having seen the son, they said in themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and let us possess the inheritance of him.’ And having taken him, they threw out, outside the vineyard, and they killed. Therefore, when he comes, the lord of the vineyard, what will he do to the tenant farmers, those?”

They say to him, “Bad men, badly, he will destroy them, and the vineyard he will give out to other tenant farmers, who will give over to him the fruits in the times of them.”

He says to them, the Jesus, “Never did you read in the writings, ‘A stone which they rejected, the builders, this became into head of corner; from Lord became this, and it is marvelous in eyes of us’? On account of this I am saying to you that it will be taken from you, the kingdom of the God, and it will be given to a nation making the fruits of it. And the one having fallen on the stone, this, he will be broken into pieces; now on whomever it falls, it will crush to powder, him.” And having heard, the chief priests and Pharisees, the parables of him, they knew that, concerning them, he says; and seeking him, to seize, they feared the crowds, since into a prophet, him, they had.

And having answered, the Jesus, again he spoke in parables to them, saying, “It was compared, the kingdom of the heavens, to a man, a king, who made a wedding celebration for the son of him. And he sent out the slaves of him to call the ones having been invited into the wedding celebration, and not they wanted to come. Again, he sent out other slaves, saying, ‘Speak to the ones having been invited, “Behold, the dinner of me I have prepared, the oxen of me and the fattened animals having been slaughtered, and all things ready; come into the wedding celebration.”’ Now the ones not caring, they went off, one, on the one hand, into the own field, one, on the other hand, on the emporium of him. Now the rest, having seized the slaves of him, they insulted, and they killed. Now the king became angry, and having sent the armies of him, he destroyed the murderers, those, and the city of them he burned. Then he says to the slaves of him, ‘On the one hand, the wedding celebration, ready, it is; on the other hand, those having been invited not were worthy; therefore, go upon the exodus-through of the ways, and as many as you find, call into the wedding celebration. And having gone out, the slaves, those, into the ways, they assembled all whom they found, both evil and good; and it was filled, the wedding celebration of reclining ones. Now having entered, the king, to behold the reclining ones, he saw there a man, not having been dressed in a dress of wedding celebration. And he says to him, ‘Friend, how did you enter here, not having a dress of wedding celebration?’ Now he was silenced. Then the king said to the servants, ‘Having bound him, feet and hands, throw out him into the darkness, the outer; there will be the wailing and the gnashing of the teeth.’ For many are called, now few, chosen.”

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