The servants went out into the roads and collected all the people whom they found, whether bad or good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests.

"Can you compel the bridal party to fast," replied Jesus, "so long as they have the bridegroom among them?

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

the lamp shall no more be lighted in thee; the bridal-song shall be heard there no more: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; all nations were seduc'd by thy enchantments.