* When.
That there were among the Jews of these times many disputes
about seats at banquets, we learn both from Josephus and the
Rabbis; nor were these matters unattended to by the Greeks and
Romans. Similar admonitions to this of our Lord, also occur
in the Rabbinical writers. Rabbi Akiba said, Go two or three
seats lower than the place that belongs to thee, and sit there
till they say unto to thee, Go up higher; but do not take the
uppermost seat, lest they say unto thee, Come down: for it is
better they should say unto thee, Go up, go up than they
should say, Go down, go down.
Pr 25:6,7
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