be weeping and grinding of teeth.” The Jews, privileged as they were to be the inheritors of the Old Testament revelation, were the expected “subjects of the kingdom”; but Jesus indicates that in fact many from all over the world will join the patriarchs in the kingdom. He also warns that many expected subjects will be excluded from the delights of God’s saving reign. Third, the expression “kingdom of God,” in the saving sense (the only way I will use it from now on), applies to both present and
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