Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Then said the king to the servants--the angelic ministers of divine vengeance (as in Matthew 13:41).
Bind him hand and foot--putting it out of his power to resist.
and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness--So Matthew 8:12; Matthew 25:30. The expression is emphatic--"the darkness which is outside." To be "outside" at all--or, in the language of Revelation 22:15, to be "without" the heavenly city, excluded from its joyous nuptials and gladsome festivities--is sad enough of itself, without anything else. But to find themselves not only excluded from the brightness and glory and joy and felicity of the kingdom above, but thrust into a region of "darkness," with all its horrors, this is the dismal retribution here announced, that awaits the unworthy at the great day.
there--in that region and condition.
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. See on Matthew 13:42.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 5:13-16
Matthew 22:2
Matthew 25:30
Luke 14:24
Ephesians 5:27
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