Wedding garment
"And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him] into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few [are] chosen." Matthew 22:11 -14
The wedding clothes or garment was provided by the host but had to be put on by the guest.
Augustine of Hippo said the garment was symbolizing charity but Martin Luther suggested that the garment represented Christ. But what would that look like to put on Christ?
John Calvin says it is faith and good works[1] because James repeatedly emphasized that faith without works is dead.[2]
Other verses in the Old Testament is related to this one of Matthew.
Isaiah 52:1 ¶ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed.
The people needed to wake up and put on the beautiful garments they were not wearing because they sold themselves for the wages of unrighteousness from those men who call themselves benefactors and who rule over them back into the bondage of Egypt. Instead of living by the perfect law of liberty through faith, hope and charity and a daily ministration of pure Religion they lived by the covetous practices of force, fear, and fealty. Many thought they were doing great things in His name saying LORD, LORD but in fact were not doers of the word but rather workers of iniquity blaspheming his name in vanity.
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- ↑ As to the wedding garment, is it faith, or is it a holy life? This is a useless controversy; for faith cannot be separated from good works, nor do good works proceed from any other source than from faith. Christ intended only to state that the Lord calls us on the express condition of our being renewed by the Spirit ... and that, in order to our remaining permanently in his house, we must put off the old man with his pollutions ... and lead a new life. Commentary vol.2
- ↑ James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
- James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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