How do examples retain their conditional and annotated scope?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Meal silence, seating possibility, supper instructions, family annotation and counting examples remain precise.

Chapter breakdown

# Luke 14

Sabbath bread at a chief Pharisee’s house, Jesus watched, man with dropsy before him. He asks lawyers/Pharisees healing lawful; silent, he takes, heals and sends man. Asks who would not immediately draw fallen ass or ox from pit on sabbath; they cannot answer. No couch, precise touch mechanism or guest identity is specified.

Marking invited people choose first seats, he speaks wedding parable: avoid first lest more honourable invited and host displaces with shame lowest; choose lowest so host may call friend higher with glory before table. Self-exalting humbled, self-humbling exalted. Host told not invite friends, brothers, relatives or rich neighbours lest reciprocal invitation/recompense; feast poor, maimed, lame, blind, unable repay, recompense resurrection of just. No earthly promotion guarantee for readers.

Table companion blesses kingdom bread-eater. Jesus’s great supper example: many invited, servant at supper hour says ready; excuses farm purchase needing sight, five-yoke oxen testing, married wife cannot come. Returning report angers master, who orders quickly city streets/lanes poor, feeble, blind, lame. Servant reports done yet room. Highway/hedge command compel so house filled; none originally invited taste supper. No reported final filling or contempt motive beyond excuses and anger.

Turning accompanying great multitudes, Jesus says coming without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters and own life cannot be disciple. Separate annotation says Christ’s law disallows even enemy hatred, much less parents; meaning willingness to part with any near/dear thing preventing following. Scripture’s wording and annotation’s interpretation stay distinct. Non-cross-bearing follower cannot disciple.

Tower-minded person first sits reckoning charges/ability finish lest foundation unfinished draws mocking. War king first thinks ten thousand against incoming twenty thousand; or else while other distant embassy seeks peace conditions. Conditional illustrations, not actual biography or invariably negotiated peace. So nonrenouncer of all possessions cannot disciple. Salt good; savour lost, with what seasoned? Unprofitable land/dunghill cast out; ears hear. Question retained without categorical impossibility claim.

The story inside

Dropsy; wedding seats; host guests; supper excuses; family/cross; tower/king; salt.

Lessons worth keeping

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Host may invite higher, not guaranteed promotion.
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Final banquet filling not reported.
3
Hatred wording and annotation remain distinct.

Test your recall

Ass/ox pit; poor/maimed/lame/blind; five yoke; 10k/20k; dunghill.

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 118935–118986
Luke Chapter 14 Christ heals the dropsical man. The parable of the supper. The necessity of renouncing all to follow Christ. 14:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to eat bread, that they watched him. 14:2. And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy. 14:3. And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 14:4. But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him and sent him away. 14:5. And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not immediately draw him out, on the sabbath day? 14:6. And they could not answer him to these things. 14:7. And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: 14:8. When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him: 14:9. And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this man place. And then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place. 14:10. But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee. 14:11. Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 14:12. And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren nor thy kinsmen nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee. 14:13. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind. 14:14. And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.
Lines 118988–119020
14:15. When one of them that sat at table with him had heard these things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 14:16. But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper and invited many. 14:17. And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them that were invited, that they should come: for now all things are ready. 14:18. And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm and I must needs go out and see it. I pray thee, hold me excused. 14:19. And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to try them. I pray thee, hold me excused. 14:20. And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot come. 14:21. And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city; and bring in hither the poor and the feeble and the blind and the lame. 14:22. And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded; and yet there is room. 14:23. And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 14:24. But I say unto you that none of those men that were invited shall taste of my supper.
Lines 119022–119061
14:25. And there went great multitudes with him. And turning, he said to them: 14:26. If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Hate not, etc.... The law of Christ does not allow us to hate even our enemies, much less our parents: but the meaning of the text is, that we must be in that disposition of soul, as to be willing to renounce, and part with every thing, how near or dear soever it may be to us, that would keep us from following Christ. 14:27. And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 14:28. For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it: 14:29. Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him, 14:30. Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish. 14:31. Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him? 14:32. Or else, while the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace. 14:33. So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple. 14:34. Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? 14:35. It is neither profitable for the land nor for the dunghill: but shall be cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.