21. came, and showed, &c.--saying as in
Isa 53:1.
"It is the part of ministers to report to the Lord in their prayers the
compliance or refusal of their hearers" [BENGEL].
angry--in one sense a gracious word, showing how sincere he was
in issuing his invitations
(Eze 33:11).
But it is the slight put upon him, the sense of which is
intended to be marked by this word.
streets and lanes--historically, those within the same pale of
"the city" of God as the former class, but the despised and outcasts of
the nation, the "publicans and sinners" [TRENCH];
generally, all similar
classes, usually overlooked in the first provision for supplying the
means of grace to a community, half heathen in the midst of revealed
light, and in every sense miserable.
JFB.
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