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All the faithful ¹ know the marriage of the king's son, and his feast, and the spreading ² of the Lord's Table is open to them all ³ who will. But it is of importance to each one to see how he approaches, even when he is not forbidden to approach It. For the Holy Scriptures teach us that there are two feasts of the Lord; one to which the good and evil come, the other to which the evil come not. So then the feast, of which we have just now heard when the Gospel was being read, has both good and evil guests. All who excused themselves from this feast are evil; but not all those who entered in are good. You therefore who are the good guests at this feast do I address, who have in your minds the words, "He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself." ⁴ All you who are such do I address, that ye look not for the good without, that ye bear with the evil within.