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THE LIFE AND MORALS

14 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

15 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. 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 maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

16 And the servant said, Lord it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

17 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

18 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

XXXVII.

Precepts.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?