The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
LUK 14:9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this
man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
LUK 14:10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room;
that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up
higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at
meat with thee.
LUK 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
humbleth himself shall be exalted.
LUK 14:12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a
dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy
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