Mat 12:45, 22:7, 23:35-38, 24:21-29, Luk 19:42-44, 21:22-24, 23:28-30 | TSK | STEP | seven. more. and the. Even.And so it was; for they became worse and worse, as if totally abandoned to diabolical influence, till the besom of destruction swept them away.

Wherefore.Our Lord not only foretells the appearance of these impostors, but also the manner and circumstance of their conduct. Accordingly, Josephus says that many impostors persuaded the people to follow them to the desert, promising them signs and wonders done by the providence of God. (See also Ac 21:38). One persuaded the people to go up into the temple, which being set on fire by the Romans, 6,000 perished in the flames.

he is in the desert.

3:1; Isa 40:3; Lu 3:2,3; Ac 21:38

as.

Job 37:3; 38:35; Isa 30:30; Zec 9:14; Lu 17:24-37

the coming.

16:28; Mal 3:2; 4:5; Jas 5:8; 2Pe 3:4

De 28:49; Job 39:27-30; Jer 16:16; Am 9:1-4; Lu 17:37

Immediately.

8; Da 7:11,12; Mr 13:24,25

shall the.

Isa 13:10; 24:23; Jer 4:23-28; Eze 32:7,8; Joe 2:10,30,31; 3:15

Am 5:20; 8:9; Zep 1:14,15; Lu 21:25,26; Ac 2:19,20; Re 6:12-17

the powers.

2Pe 3:10

Luke 19:42-44

If.

De 5:29; 32:29; Ps 81:13; Isa 48:18; Eze 18:31,32; 33:11

in this.

44; Ps 32:6; 95:7,8; Isa 55:6; Joh 12:35,36; 2Co 6:1,2

the things.

1:77-79; 2:10-14; 10:5,6; Ac 10:36; 13:46; Heb 3:7,13,15; 10:26-29

Heb 12:24-26

but.

Isa 6:9,10; 29:10-14; 44:18; Mt 13:14,15; Joh 12:38-41; Ac 28:25-27

Ro 11:7-10; 2Co 3:14-16; 4:3,4; 2Th 2:9-12

the days.

21:20-24; De 28:49-58; Ps 37:12,13; Da 9:26,27; Mt 22:7; 23:37-39

Mr 13:14-20; 1Th 2:15,16

cast.Or, "cast a bank" or rampart [charax .] This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by Titus; who surrounded it with a wall of circumvallation in three days, though not less than 39 furlongs in circumference; and when this was effected, the Jews were so enclosed on every side, that no person could escape from the city, and no provision could be brought in.

Isa 29:1-4; Jer 6:3-6

lay.

1Ki 9:7,8; Mic 3:12

thy children.

13:34,35; Mt 23:37,38

leave.

21:6; Mt 24:2; Mr 13:2

because.

42; 1:68,78; La 1:8; Da 9:24; Joh 3:18-21; 1Pe 2:12

Luke 21:22-24

the days.

Isa 34:8; 61:2; Jer 51:6; Ro 2:5; 2Pe 2:9; 3:7

all.

Le 26:14-33; De 28:15-68; 29:19-28; 32:34,43; Ps 69:22-28; 149:7-9

Isa 65:12-16; Da 9:26,27; Zec 11:1-3; 14:1,2; Mal 4:1; Mr 13:19,20

woe.

23:29; De 28:56,57; La 4:10; Heb 9:12-17; 13:16; Mt 24:19; Mr 13:17

great.

19:27,43; Mt 21:41,44; 1Th 2:16; Heb 10:26-31; Jas 5:1; 1Pe 4:17

led.

De 28:64-68

Jerusalem.

Isa 5:5; 63:18; La 1:15; Re 11:2

until.

Isa 66:12,19; Da 9:27; 12:7; Mal 1:11; Ro 11:25

Luke 23:28-30

daughters.

So 1:5; 2:7; 3:5,10; 5:8,16; 8:4

the days.Our Lord here refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the final desolation of the Jewish state; an evil associated with so many miseries, that sterility, which had otherwise been considered an opprobrium, was accounted a circumstance most felicitous. No history can furnish us with a parallel to the calamities and miseries of the Jews; rapine and murder, famine and pestilence, within; fire and sword, and all the terrors of war, without. Our Saviour himself wept at the foresight of these calamities; and it is almost impossible for persons of any humanity to read the relation of them in Josephus without weeping also. He might justly affirm, "if the misfortunes of all, from the beginning of the world, were compared with those of the Jews, they would appear much inferior in the comparison."

21:23,24; Mt 24:19; Mr 13:17-19

Blessed.

De 28:53-57; Ho 9:12-16; 13:16

Isa 2:19; Ho 10:8; Re 6:16; 9:6