A. D. 33. MATT, XXIII. 38, 39.-XXIV. 1. A, D. 33. Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, , ed is he that cometh in the name of the and thy spoil shall be divided in the Lord: midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle ; a For the children of Israel shall and the city shall be taken, and the abide many days without a king, and houses rifled, and the women ravish- without a prince, and without a saed; and half of the city shall go forth crifice, and without an image, and into captivity, and the residue of the without an ephod, and without terapeople shall not be cut off from the phim : Afterward shall the children city, xiv. 1, 2. But when ye shallsee of Israel return and seek the LORD the abomination of desolation, spo their God, and David their king; ken of by Daniel the prophet, stand- and shall fear the Lord and his gooding where it ought not, (let him that ness in the latter days, Hos. iii. 4, 5. readeth understand,) then let them And it was revealed unto him by the that be in Judæa flee to the moun Holy Ghost, that he should not see tains, Mark xiii. 14. Behold, your death, before he had seen the Lord's house is left unto you desolate: and Christ. And he came by the Spirit verily I say unto you, Ye shall not into the temple : and when the pasee me, until the time come when ye rents brought in the child Jesus, to do shall say, Blessed is he that cometh for him after the custom of the law, in the name of the Lord, Luke xiii. Then took he him up in his arms, and 35. For the days shall come upon blessed God, and said, Lord, now letthee, that thine enemies shall cast a test thou thy servant depart in peace, trench about thee, and compass thee according to thy word : For mine eyes round, and keep thee in on every side, have seen thy salvation, Luke ii. 26 And shall lay thee even with the 30. And he said unto the disciples, The ground, and thy children within thee; days will come, when ye shall desire and they shall not leave in thee to see one of the days of the Son of one stone upon another ; because man, and ye shall not see it, xvi. 22. thou knewest not the time of thy vi- Then said Jesus again unto them, I go sitation, xix. 43, 44. As for these my way, and ye shall seek me, and things which ye behold, the days will shall die in your sins : whither I go, come, in the which there shall not be ye cannot come, John viii. 21. I said left one stone upon another, that shall therefore unto you, that ye shall die not be thrown down, xxi. 6. And in your sins : for if ye believe not when ye shall see Jerusalem com that I am he, ye shall die in your sins, passed with armies, then know that 24. Your Father Abraham rejoiced the desolation thereof is nigh, 20. to see my day: and he saw it, and was And they shall fall by the edge of the glad, 56. Jesus saith unto him, Have sword, and shall be led away captive I been so long time with you, and yet into all nations, and Jerusalem shall hast thou not known me, Philip? he that be trodden down of the Gentiles, un bath seen me bath seen the Father; til the times of the Gentiles be ful and how sayest thou then, Shew us filled, 24. And set up false witnesses the Father? xiv. 9. Yet a little while, which said, This man ceaseth not to and the world seeth me no more; but speak blasphemous words against ye see me : because I live, ye shall this holy place, and the law : For live also, 19. we have heard him say, that this Je b See on chap. xxi. ver. 9. clause 3. sus of Nazareth shall destroy this CHAP. XXIV.-VER. 1. place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us, Acts vi. Και εξελθών ο Ιησούς, επορεύετο από του 13, 14. ιερού και προσήλθον οι μαθηταί αυτού επι δείξαι αυτά τας οικοδομές του ιερού. VER. 39. And Jesus went out, a and departed Λέγω γάρ υμίν: Ου μη με ίδητε απ' from the temple: and his disciples came άρτι, έως αν είπητες. Ευλογημένος ο ερχό- to him for bio sλεω him the buildings of μενος εν ονόματι Κυρίου. the temple. For I say unto you, a Ye shall not see a For I say unto you, Ye shall not me henceforth, till ye shall Bless- see me henceforth, till ye shall say, say, : b A. D. 33. MATT, XXIV. 1-3. A. D, 33. Blessed is he that cometh in the name a field, and Jerusalem shall become of the Lord, Matt. xxiii. 39. Be thou heaps, and the mountain of the house instructed 0 Jerusalem, lest my soul as the high places of a forest, Jer. depart from thee; lest I make thee xxvi. 18. As for the beauty of his desolate, a land not inhabited, Jer. ornament, he set it in majesty : but vi. 8. He said furthermore unto me, they made the images of their abomiSon of man, seest thou what they do? nations and of their detestable things even the great abominations that the therein : therefore have I set it far house of Israel committeth here, that from them. And I will give it into the I should go far off from my sanctuary? hands of the strangers for a prey, and but turn thee yet again, and thou to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; shalt see greater abominations, Ezek. and they shall pollute it. My face viii. 6. Though they bring up their will I tum also from them, and they children, yet will I bereave them, that shall pollute my secret place : for the there shall not be a man left : yea, woe robbers shall enter into it, and defile also to them when I depart from them! it, Ezek. vii. 20—22. And after Hos. ix. 12. threescore and two weeks shall Mesb And as he went out of the temple, siah be cut off, but not for himself : one of his disciples saith unto him, and the people of the prince that shall Master, see what manner of stones come shall destroy the city and the and what buildings are here! And sanctuary; and the end thereof shall Jesus answering said unto him, Seest be with a flood, and unto the end of thou these great buildings? there shall the war desolations are determined. not be left one stone upon another, And he shall confirm the covenant that shall not be thrown down, Mark with many for one week: and in the xiii. 1, 2. And as some spake of the midst of the week he shall cause the temple, how it was adorned with sacrifice and the oblation to cease, goodly stones and gifts, he said, As and for the overspreading of abomifor these things which ye behold, the nations he shall make it desolate, days will come, in the which there even until the consummation, and that shall not be left one stone upon an- determined shall be poured upon the other, that shall not be thrown down, desolate, Dan. ix. 26, 27. Therefore Luke xxi. 5, 6. shall Zion for your sake be ploughed VER. 2. as a field, and Jerusalem shall become 'O di 'Incoūs sinev aŭtors. Ou Bénet: heaps, and the mountain of the house Távta taūta; kung algo ipão, o reins ii. 12. Ånd shall lay thee even with as the high places of the forest, Mic. αφεθή ώδε λίθος επί λίθον, δς ου μη κατα· λυθήσεται. the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee And Jesus said unto them, See ye not one stone upon another; because thou all these things? verily I say unto you, knewest not the time of thy visitation, a There shall not be left here one stone upon Luke xix. 44. another, that shall not be thrown down. VER. 3. a Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them ; ελαιών, προσήλθον αυτό οι μαθηται κατ' Καθημένου δε αυτού επί του όρους των and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my έσται, και τι το σημείον της σής παρου ιδίαν, λέγοντες· Είπε ημίν, πότε ταύτα sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and abyword among all people: And | σίας, και της συντελείας του αιώνος; at this house, which is high, every one And as a he sat upon the mount of that passeth by it shall be astonished, Olives, the disciples came unto him priand shall hiss; and they shall say, vately, saying, b Tell us, when shall these Why hath the Lord done thus unto things be? and what shall be the sign of this land, and to this house, 1 Kings thy coming, and of the end of the world? ix. 7, 8. Micah the Morasthite pro a And as he sat upon the mount of phesied in the days of Hezekiah king Olives over against the temple, Peter of Judah, and spake to all the people and James and John and Andrew of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD asked him privately, Tell us, when of hosts ; Zion shall be ploughed like shall these things be? and what shall A. D.33. MATT. XXIV. 3-5. A. D. 33. a be the sign when all these things shall you : For many shall come in my be fulfilled ? Mark xiii. 3, 4. name, saying, I am Christ; and shall b And one said to the man clothed deceive many, Mark xiii. 5, 6. For in linen, which was upon the waters false Christ's and false prophets shall of the river, How long shall it be to rise, and shall shew signs and wonthe end of these wonders? And I heard ders, to seduce, if it were possible, the man clothed in linen, which was even the elect, 22. And he said, upon the waters of the river; when Take heed that ye be not deceived: he held up his right hand and his left for many shall come in my name, hand unto heaven, and sware by him saying, I am Christ; and the time that liveth for ever that it shall be for draweth near: go ye not therefore a time, times, and an half; and when after them, Luke xxi. 8. For such he shall have accomplished to scatter are false apostles, deceitful workers, the power of the holy people, all these transforming themselves into the aposthings shall be finished. And I heard, tles of Christ. And no marvel ; for but I understood not: then said I, O Satan himself is transformed into an my Lord, what shall be the end of angel of light, 2 Cor. xi. 13, 14. That these things? Dan. xii. 6—8. And we henceforth be no more children they asked him saying, Master, but tossed to and fro, and carried about when shall these things be ? and what with every wind of doctrine, by the sign will there be when these things sleight of men, and cunning craftishallcome to pass ? Luke xxi. 7. Peter ness, whereby they lie in wait to deseeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord, and ceive, Eph. iv. 14. Let no man dewhat shall this man do? Jesus saith ceive you with vain words : for beunto him, If I will that he tarry till cause of these things cometh the I come, what is that to thee? follow wrath of God upon the children of disthou me, John xxi. 21, 22. And he obedience, v. 6. Let no man deceive said unto them, It is not for you to you by any means: for that day shall know the times or the seasons, which not come, except there come a falling the Father hath put in his own power, away first, and that man of sin be reActs i. 7. But of the times and the vealed, the son of perdition, 2 Thess. seasons, brethren, ye have no need ii. 3. But there were false prophets that I write unto you, 1 Thess. v. 1. also among the people, even as there c Now learn a parable of the fig shall be false teachers among you, tree; When his branch is yet tender who privily shall bring in damnable and putteth forth leaves, ye know that heresies, even denying the Lord that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when bought them, and bring upon themye shall see all these things, know that selves swift destruction. And many it is near, even at the doors, ver. 32, shall follow their pernicious ways; 33. But know this, that if the good by reason of whom the way of truth man of the house had known in what shall be evil spoken of. And through watch the thief would come, he would covetousness shall they with feigned have watched, and would not have words make merchandise of you : suffered his house to be broken up, 43. whose judgment now of a long time VER. 4. lingereth not, and their daination Kai &moxqıbele ó 'inorūs, elnev avtos: loved, believe not every spirit, but slumbereth not, 2 Pet. ii. 14-3. BeΒλέπετε μήτις υμάς πλανήση. try the spirits whether they are of And Jesus answered and said unto God: because many false prophets them, a Take heed that no man deceive are gone out into the world, 1 John you. iv. 1. a For thus saith the Lord of hosts, VER. 5. the God of Israel ; 'Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the Πολλοί γάρ ελεύσονται επί τω ονόματι πmidst of you, deceive you, neither μου, λέγοντες: Εγώ είμαι ο Χριστός και hearken to your dreams which ye πολλούς πλανήσουσι. caused to be dreamed, Jer. xxix. 8. For many shall come a in my name, And Jesus answering them began to suying, I am Christ ; and shall deceive say, Take heed lest any man deceive | many. A. D. 33. MATT. XXIV. 5, 6. A. D. 33. : a And many false prophets shall bring a sword upon that land, and rise, and shall deceive many, Matt. say, Sword, go through the land ; so xi. 11. For there shall arise false that I cut off man and beast from it : Christs and false prophets, and shall | Though these three men were in it, shew great signs and wonders; inso- as I live, saith the Lord God, they much that, if it were possible, they shall shall deliver neither sons nor daughdeceive the very elect, 24. I have ters, but they only shall be delivered not sent these prophets, yet they ran : themselves. Or if I send a pestilence I have not spoken to them, yet they into that land, and pour out my fury prophesied, Jer. xxiii. 21. I have upon it in blood, to cut off from it heard what the prophets said, that man and beast. Though Noah, Daniel, prophesy lies in my name, saying, I and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the have dreamed, I have dreamed, 25. Lord God, they shall deliver neither I am come in my and son nor daughter ; they shall but deye receive me not : if another shall liver their own souls by their righ. come in his own name, him ye will teousness. For thus saith the Lord receive, John v. 43. For before these God; How much more when I send days rose up Theudas, boasting him- my four sore judgments upon Jeruself to be somebody ; to whom a num- salem, the sword and the famine, and ber of men, about four hundred, joined the noisome beast, and the pestilence, themselves : who was slain ; and all, to cut off from it man and beast? as many as obeyed him, were scat- xiv. 17--21. And when ye shail tered, and brought to nought. After hear of wars and rumours of wars, this man rose up Judas of Galilee, in be ye not troubled : for such things the days of the taxing, and drew away must needs be ; but the end shall not much people after him; he also perish- be yet. For nation shall rise against ed; and all, even as many as obeyed nation, and kingdom against kinghim, were dispersed, Acts v. 36, 37. dom: and there shall be earthquakes But there was a certain man, called in divers places, and there shall be Simon, which before-time in the same famines and troubles : these are the city used sorcery, and bewitched the beginnings of sorrows, Mark xiii. people of Samaria, giving out that 7, 8. But when ye shall hear of himself was some great one: To whom wars and commotions, be not terrified: they all gave heed, from the least to for these things must first come to the greatest, saying, This man is the pass; but the end is not by and by, great power of God, viii. 9, 10. Luke xxi. 9. b The Lord is my light and my salΜελλήσετε δε ακούειν πολέμους, και is the strength of my life; of whom vation; whom shall I fear? the LORD åxoàs worépay ogãte pen Igcsiges de shall I be afraid? When the wicked, γαρ πάντα γενέσθαι· αλλ' ούπω έστι το even mine enemies and my foes, came τέλος. upon me to eat up my flesh, they And a shall hear of wars and ru- stumbled and fell. “Though an host mours of wars: b see that ye be not should encamp against me, my heart troubled : <for all these things must shall not fear : though war should come to pass, d but the end is not yet. rise against me, in this will I be cona Wherefore I will bring the worst fident, Psal. xxvii. 1-3. God is our of the heathen, and they shall possess refuge and strength, a very present their houses : I will also make the help in trouble. Therefore will not we pomp of the strong to cease; and fear though the earth be removed, their holy places shall be defiled. and though the mountains be carried Destruction cometh ; and they shall into the midst of the sea ; Though the seek peace, and there shall be none. waters thereof roar and be troubled, Mischief shall come upon mischief, though the mountains shake with the and rumour shall be upon rumour; swelling thereof, xlvi. 1-3. He shall then shall they seek a vision of the not be afraid of evil tidings : his prophet; but the law shall perish heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD, from the priest, and counsel from the cxii. 7. Say ye not, A confederacy, . ancients, Ezek. vii. 24--26. Or if I l to all them to whom the people shall VOL. I. ye A, D. 33. A. D. 33, say, A confederacy; neither fear ye | Lord God in your hearts: and be their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify ready always to give an answer to the Lord of hosts himself; and let every man that asketh you a reason him be your fear, and let him be your of the hope that is in you with meekdread. And he shall be for a sanc- ness and fear, 1 Pet. iii. 14, 15. tuary ; but for a stone of stumbling ¢ But how then shall the Scripand for a rock of offence to both the tures be fulfilled, that thus it must houses of Israel, for a gin and for a be? Matt. xxvi. 54. For I say unto snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, you, That this that is written must yet Isa. viii. 12–14. Behold, God is my be accomplished in me, And he was salvation ; I will trust, and not be reckoned among the transgressors : afraid : for the LORD JEHOVAH is for the things concerning me have my strength and my song; he also is an end, Luke xxii. 37. Saying, Fear become my salvation, xii. 2. Thou not, Paul; thou must be brought bewilt keep him in perfect peace, whose fore Cæsar: and, lo, God hath given mind is stayed on thee : because he thee all that sail with thee. Wheretrusted in thee. Trust ye in the fore, sirs, be of good cheer : for I beLord for ever : for in the Lord JE- lieve God, that it shall be even as it HOVAH iseverlasting strength, xxvi. was told me. Howbeit we must be 3,4. Come, my people, enter thou into cast upon a certain island, Acts xxvii. thychambers, and shut thy doors about 24-26. thee: hide thyself as it were for a d And this Gospel of the kingdom little moment, until the indignation shall be preached in all the world, for be overpast. For, behold, the LORD a witness unto all nations; and then cometh out of his place to punish the shall the end come, ver. 14. inhabitants of the earth for their ini VER. 7. quity : the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover 'Εγερθήσεται γας έθνος επί έθνος, και her slain, 20, 21. When I heard, | βασιλεία επί βασιλείαν και έσονται λιμοί my belly trembled ; my lips quivered και λοιμοί, και σεισμοί κατά τόπους. at the voice: rottenness entered into For a nation shall rise against namy bones, and I trembled in myself, tion, and kingdom against kingdom : that I might rest in the day of trouble: and there shall be b famines, and peswhen he cometh up unto the people, tilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. be will invade them with his troops. a And nation was destroyed of naAlthough the fig-tree shall not blos. tion, and city of city; for God did som, neither shall fruit be in the vines; vex them with all adversity, 2 Chron. the labour of the olive shall fail, and xv. 6. Through the wrath of the the fields shall yield no meat; the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, flock shall be cut off from the fold, and the people shall be as the fuel of and there shall be no herd in the stalls: the fire : no man shall spare his broYet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will ther. And he shall snatch on the joy in the God of my salvation, Hab. right hand, and be hungry; and he iii. 16–18. In your patience possess shall eat on the left hand, and they ye your souls, Luke xxi. 19. Let not shall not be satisfied : they shall eat your heart be troubled: ye believe in every man the flesh of his own arm: God, believe also in me, John xiv. 1. Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Peace I leave with you, my peace I | Manasseh : and they together shall be give unto you: not as the world giveth, against Judah. For all this his anger give I unto you. Let not your heart is not turned away, but his hand is be troubled, neither let it be afraid, stretched out still, Isa. ix. 19-21. 27. That ye be not soon shaken in And I will set the Egyptians against mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, the Egyptians: and they shall fight nor by word, nor by letter as from us, every one against his brother, and as that the day of Christ is at hand, every one against his neighbour ; city 2 Thess. ii. 2. But and if ye suf- against city, and kingdom against fer for righteousness' sake, happy are kingdom, xix. 2. Speak to Zerubye: and be not afraid of their terror, babel, governor of Judah, saying, I neither be troubled; But sanctify the I will shake the heavens and the earth : b |
