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Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’
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Verse 9. Go ye therefore into the highways. The apostles first kept themselves within the precincts of Judea, but the Jews continually sought their destruction. Therefore Saint Paul said to them, (Acts 13:46) to you it behoved us first to speak the word of God, but seeing you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles. Saint John Chrysostom hom lxx.
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