But he will say, I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers! — the citation of Psalm 6:8 (depart from me, all you workers of iniquity) identifies the rejected as those whose iniquity excluded them from genuine relationship with the master. The weeping and gnashing of teeth when they see the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God communicates the magnitude of the loss.

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