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and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
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Verse 12. Not having a wedding garment. By this one person, are represented all sinner void of the grace of God. Witham.—To enter with unclean garments, is to depart out of this life in the guilt of sin. For those are no less guilty of manifesting a contempt for the Deity, who presume to sit down in the filth of an unclean conscience, than those who neglected to answer the invitations of the Almighty. He is said to be silent, because having nothing to advance in his own defence, he remains self-condemned, and is hurried away to torments; the horrors of which words can never express. Saint John Chrysostom hom. lxx.
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