<p>16:26 <i>And besides all this, between us and you there is fixed a great gulf, so that they that would pass from here to you cannot, and none may cross over from there to us</i>- The eternal chasm between them was foreseen by the Psalmist: &quot;As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity cp. the condemned goats: but peace shall be upon Israel the sheep, looking on at the rejection of the wicked&quot; (Ps. 125:5). Those who will want to cross the chasm then will be unable to (Lk. 16:26); the great gulf is fixed. In the context of describing the establishment of the Kingdom, we read that God's servants will eat, drink and rejoice, singing for joy of heart, at the same time as the rejected will be ashamed, hunger and thirst and howl for &quot;breaking of spirit&quot;- all the language of the rejected (Is. 65:13,14,17,18 RVmg.). It seems that this is a picture of the rejected watching the accepted eating with Christ as the Passover is eaten anew. Hence their howling and shame; for shame implies being naked in the presence of others. Thus the rejected will in some sense be in the presence of the accepted.</p>