affect Tis little. We shall not look for our reward here. We shall feel that all will he rectified one day^ and that the Judge of all the earth will do right. (Gen. xviii. 25.) But how can we hear the thought of a resurrection ? What shall enable us to look forward to a world to come without alarm P Nothing can do it, but faith in Christ. Believing on Him, we have nothing to fear. Our sins will not appear against us. The demands of God's law will be found completely satisfied. We shall stand firm in the great day, and none shall lay anything to our charge. (Rom.-viii. 33.) Worldly men, like Felix, may well tremble when they think of a resurrection. But believers, like Paul, may rejoice.
Notes. Luke XTV. 7 — 14.
7. — [He marked.] The Greek word so rendered is only used five times in the New Testament. It means literally " gave atten- tion," or "observed." It is elsewhere translated "gave heed." (Acts iii. 6.)
[The chief rooms.] The Greek word so rendered does not literally mean " rooms," or " chambers," as if our Lord meant that the guests chose the best apartments in the house. It signifies the " best seats," or reclining places at table. Major gives a quotation, showing that " the most honourable station at an entertainment among tiie Romans, was the middle part of the middle couch, each couch holding three."
9. — [Oive this man place,,. lowest room.] It should be observed in this verse, that it is the same Greek word which is translated "place" and "room." The sentence should either have been translated, " give this man place," and " take the lowest place," — or " give this man room," and " take the lowest room."
[Begin.l This shows the tardiness, and reluctance, and un- willingness with which the move would be made.
10. — [Go and sit down in the lowest room.] The following quotation irom Paley is worth reading. " Some of the passages in the Gospels about humility, especially the Lord's advice to the guests at an entertainment, seem to extend His rules to what we call manners, which was both regular in point of consistency, and not so much beneath the dignity of our Lord's mission, as