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Entertainments » Guests at » Arranged according to rank
"But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest.
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Feasts » Ancient customs at » Men alone present at
"'For I tell you that not one of those invited guests shall taste my supper.'"
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Then came a convenient day, when Herod on his birthday held a feast for his lords and generals and the leading men of Galilee,
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Feasts » Rank
"When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say, "'Give place to this man,' and then with mortification you proceed to take the lowest place. "But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest.