When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited — the wedding-feast analogy grounds the humility teaching in the social logic of honor culture: the risk of public humiliation when displaced by a more honored guest motivates the prudent choice of the lower seat. Better to be invited up than to be moved down.

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