There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
(See Gill on Matthew
8:12). This will be upon hearing the above sentence and
character, "depart from me" and will be increased,
when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:
whose offspring they were, and to whom they stood related
according to the flesh; and of descent, from whom they boasted,
and even trusted in it, thinking themselves the favourites of
heaven, and expecting to be admitted into the kingdom of God, on
account of it: sad will be the disappointment of such persons; a
being born of religious parents, will neither give right unto,
nor meetness for eternal glory; regeneration is not of blood:
and all the prophets in the kingdom of God;
whose prophecies were transmitted to them, and whose books they
had in their hands, and read; and who desired to see and hear
what they did, and which they now plead, and yet they did not
enjoy, but were nevertheless happy: and
you [yourselves] thrust out:
with indignation and contempt, with shame and "ignominy", as the
Persic version adds; not suffered to go in with them, though
their sons and successors; but bid to depart, and ordered to be
for ever separated from them, as only fit company for devils and
damned spirits.
