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Matthew 22:9

Western Saints

Jerome

Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. Therefore, go to the street corners and invite to the wedding feast whoever you find.' So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad and the good alike, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. There were no Gentiles on the streets, but at the exits of the streets. …

Commentary on Matthew ↗

Gregory the Dialogist

"Go therefore to the crossroads, and whomever you find, call to the wedding." If in Sacred Scripture we understand ways as actions, we understand the crossroads as the failures of actions, because those whom no prosperity accompanies in earthly activities usually come easily to God.

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 38 ↗

Hilary of Poitiers

By the street also is to be understood the time of this world, and they are therefore bid to go to the crossings of the streets, because the past is remitted to all.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗