Tertullian

“ The preparation for the supper is no doubt a figure of the abundant provision [6] of eternal life. I first remark, that strangers, and persons unconnected by ties of relationship, are not usually invited to a supper; but that members of the household and family are more frequently the favoured guests. To the Creator, then, it belonged to give the invitation, to whom also appertained those who were to be invited—whether considered as men, through their descent from Adam, or as Jews, by reason of their fathers ”

“ Meanwhile, you who interpret the call to this supper as an invitation to a heavenly banquet of spiritual satiety and pleasure, must remember that the earthly promises also of wine and oil and corn, and even of the city, are equally employed by the Creator as figures of spiritual things. ”

“ They have moved me to jealousy by that which is no god, and they have provoked me to anger with their idols; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people: I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation” [26] —even with us, whose hope the Jews still entertain. [27] But this hope the Lord says they should not realize; [28] “Sion being left as a cottage [29] in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,” [30] since the nation rejected the latest invitation to Christ. ”