Incarnation And Wedding

Quod Dominus dixit, Simile est regnum coelorum homini regi qui nuptias filio suo: nuptias dixit Verbum incarnatum, quia in ipso homine suscepto Ecclesia Deo copulata est. Quod dixit, Tauri mei et altilia occisa sunt: tauros dixit principes plebium, altilia vero, omnia saginata. Quod dixit Dominus, Ite ad exitus viarum, et quoscumque inveneritis, vocate ad nuptias: viae intelliguntur dogmata Gentium, quia ex omnibus illis ad nuptias venerunt, id est, Christo crediderunt. Sanctus Augustinus Hipponensi, Questiones in Evangelium Secundum Matthaeum, Liber Primus, XXXI Source: Migne PL 35 1329

When the Lord said: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a man who prepared the wedding of his son.' 1 He spoke of the wedding of the Incarnation of the Word; since by this adoption of man, the Church was bound to God. By saying: 'My bulls and my poultry have been slain,' he spoke of bulls as the leaders of the people and by poultry everything that fattens. When the Lord said: 'Go out to the crossings of the roads and invite those you find to the wedding,' the ways are understood as the teachings of the Gentiles, because from all of them guests came to the wedding, that is, they believed in Christ. Saint Augustine of Hippo, Questions on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 1, 31 1 Mt 22.2