Differing Parables

Ἄνθρωπός τις ἐποίησε δεῖπνον μέγα, καὶ ἐκάλεσε πολλούς... Ἀλλοτρία αὕτη ἡ παραβολὴ πρὸς τὴν παρὰ τῷ Ματθαίῳ. Ἐκεῖ μὲν γὰρ βασιλεὺς, καὶ γάμοι υἱοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ κλήτορες πολλοὶ, καὶ οἱ κληθέντες οὐκ ἀπῆλθον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς δούλους ὕβρισαν καὶ ἀπέκτειναν, καὶ στράτευμα κινούμενον κατὰ τῶν ἀνῃρηκότων τοὺς δούλους, καὶ ὁ διὰ τὴν ῥυπαρὰν ἐσθῆτα ἐκβαλλόμενος τοῦ γάμου· ὧδε δὲ ἄνθρωπος εἰσάγεται ψιλὸς, καὶ δεῖπνον ἁπλῶς, καὶ εἷς ἐπὶ τὴν κλῆσιν ἐκπέμπεται, καὶ οἱ κληθέντες παραιτοῦνται μόνον τὴν κλῆσιν, ἀσχολίαν σκηπτόμενοι. Τὸ δὲ κεφαλαιωδέστερον, ὅτι ἐκείνη μὲν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ λέλεκτο πρὸς τοὺς ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ πρεσβυτέρους τοῦ λαοῦ, αὕτη δ' ἐπὶ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ἐν οἰκίᾳ τινὸς ἄρχοντος Φαρισαίου· τῶν γὰρ συνανακειμένων τις ἀκούσας τὸ, Μακάριος ἔσῃ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔχουσιν ἀνταποδοῦναί σοι· ἀνταποδοθήσεται γάρ σοι ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει τῶν δικαίων· τῆς ἀναστάσεως καὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ μιᾶς καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς νοουμένης. Πρὸς οὖν τὸν εἰρηκότα, Μακάριος ὅστις φάγηται ἄρτον ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, τίς ἂν γένοιτο οὗτος ὁ μακάριος διὰ τῆς παραβολῆς ὁ Σωτὴρ παρίστησι λέγων, Ἄνθρωπός τις ἐποίησε δεῖπνον μέγα· πάλιν αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐν τούτοις ἄνθρωπον ὀνομάζων. Εὐσέβιος ὁ Καισάρειος, Τὸ Κατὰ Λουκαν Ἐπαγγελιον, Ἐκλογή Source: Migne PG 24.572b-c

A certain man prepared a great feast, to which he invited many...1 This is a different parable from the one given by Matthew. For there we have a king and the wedding of the king's son, and many servants are sent out to call, and those who are called do not come, but they scorn the servants and kill them, and an army is despatched against the killers of the servants, and a certain man because of his sordid clothing is cast out of the wedding feast, 1 but here one man is introduced, and it is a private meal, and one servant is sent out to call, and those called decline the invitation because they are busy with other occupations. And this is to be especially noted, that the former was told in the temple before the high priests and elders of the people, and the latter in Galilee in the house of a certain ruler among the Pharisees. And that man reclining heard, 'And you shall be blessed because they have nothing with which they may repay you, but you will have repayment in the resurrection of the righteous.' And the resurrection and the kingdom of God are to understood as one and the same. But now to him who said, 'Blessed is he who eats bread in the kingdom of God,' who this blessed man may be the Saviour declares in this parable, saying, 'A certain man prepared a great feast,' again with these words naming himself as the man. Eusebius of Caesarea, Commentary On the Gospel of Saint Luke, Fragment 1 Lk 14.16 2 Mt 22.2-14