Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
whosoever, etc.—couching them in a chaste simplicity and proverbial terseness of style which makes them "apples of gold in a setting of silver." (See on Luke 18:14).
a parable—showing that His design was not so much to inculcate mere politeness or good manners, as underneath this to teach something deeper (Luke 14:11).
chief rooms—principal seats, in the middle part of the couch on which they reclined at meals, esteemed the most honorable.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 14:11:
Esther 10:2
Mark 10:40
Luke 11:43
Luke 14:7-11
Luke 14:10
Luke 16:15
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