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He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
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Verse 7. A parable. What parable? In the text there is no parable, but only instruction. Maldonatus thinks that our Saviour spoke a parable on this occasion, which Saint Luke has omitted, giving us only the moral and the substance of the instruction conveyed by it. Calmet.—To take the lowest place at a feast, according to our Saviour’s injunctions, is certainly very becoming; but imperiously to insist upon it, is far from acting according to our Saviour’s wishes, particularly when it is destructive of regularity, and productive of discord and contention. Saint Basil the Great
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