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I. IN THEIR PROPHETIC IMPORT as accomplished —

1. In the calling of the Gentiles.

2. The rejection of the Jews.

II. As DESCRIPTIVE OF GOD'S ACTUAL PROCEDURE.

1. He receives sinners and outcasts.

2. But the children of the kingdom are cast out.

III. AS ILLUSTRATING THE WHOLE ECONOMY OF THE GOSPEL.

1. It is a system of unmerited grace.

2. Those who do not participate in it have themselves wholly to blame.

(C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

WEB: But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."