John Trapp on Matthew 20:16

Verse 16. So the last shall be first, &c.] This is the purport of the preceding parable. Application is the life of preaching. Few are chosen.] It's a strange speech of Chrysostom, in his fourth sermon to the people of Antioch, where he was much beloved,Non arbitror inter Sacerdotes multes esse qui salvi [illegible: 1 word]. and did much good. How many, think you; shall be saved in this City? It will be an hard speech to you, but I will speak it: Though there be so many thousands of you, yet there cannotChrysost Hom. 3. in Act. be found an hundred that shall be saved, and I doubt of them too: For what villany is there in youth? What sloth in old men? and so he goes on. See the notes on Mat. 7. 14.