Luk 14:8-11 | JFB | STEP | 8. wedding —and seating thyself at the wedding feast. Our Lord avoids the appearance of personality by this delicate allusion to a different kind of entertainment than this of his host [BENGEL ].

Luke 14:8-11

8. wedding—and seating thyself at the wedding feast. Our Lord avoids the appearance of personality by this delicate allusion to a different kind of entertainment than this of his host [BENGEL].

9. the lowest—not a lower merely [BENGEL].

with shame—"To be lowest is only ignominious to him who affects the highest" [BENGEL].

10. Friend—said to the modest guest only, not the proud one (Lu 14:9) [BENGEL].

worship—honor. The whole of this is but a reproduction of Pr 25:6, 7. But it was reserved for the matchless Teacher to utter articulately, and apply to the regulation of the minutest features of social life, such great laws of the Kingdom of God, as that of Lu 14:11.

11. whosoever, &c.—couching them in a chaste simplicity and proverbial terseness of style which makes them "apples of gold in a setting of silver." (See on Lu 18:14).