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dennG1063 großeG3173 NotG318 wird inG1909 dem LandeG1093 seinG2071, undG2532 ZornG3709 überG1722 diesesG5129 VolkG2992. 24UndG2532 sie werden fallenG4098 durch die SchärfeG4750 des SchwertesG3162 undG2532 gefangen weggeführt werdenG163 unterG1519 alleG3956 NationenG1484; undG2532 JerusalemG2419 wird zertretenG3961 werdenG2071 vonG5259 den NationenG1484, bisG891 daß die ZeitenG2540 der NationenG1484 erfüllt sein werdenG4137. 25UndG2532 es werden ZeichenG4592 seinG2071 anG1722 SonneG2246 undG2532 MondG4582 undG2532 SternenG798, undG2532 aufG1909 der ErdeG1093 BedrängnisG4928 der NationenG1484 inG1722 RatlosigkeitG640 bei brausendemG2278 MeerG2281 undG2532 WasserwogenG4535; 26indem die MenschenG444 verschmachtenG674 vorG575 FurchtG5401 undG2532 ErwartungG4329 der Dinge, die über den ErdkreisG3625 kommenG1904, dennG1063 die KräfteG1411 der HimmelG3772 werden erschüttert werdenG4531. 27UndG2532 dannG5119 werden sie den SohnG5207 des MenschenG444 kommenG2064 sehenG3700 inG1722 einer WolkeG3507 mitG3326 MachtG1411 undG2532 großerG4183 HerrlichkeitG1391. 28Wenn aberG1161 diese DingeG5130 anfangenG756 zu geschehenG1096, so blicket aufG352 undG2532 hebetG1869 eureG5216 HäupterG2776 emporG1869, weilG1360 eureG5216 ErlösungG629 nahtG1448. 29UndG2532 er sprachG2036 ein GleichnisG3850 zu ihnenG846: SehetG1492 den FeigenbaumG4808 undG2532 alleG3956 BäumeG1186; 30wennG3752 sie schonG2235 ausschlagenG4261, so erkennet ihrG1097 vonG575 selbstG1438, indem ihr es sehetG991, daßG3754 der SommerG2330 schonG2235 naheG1451 istG2076. 31SoG3779 auchG2532 ihrG5210, wennG3752 ihr diesG5023 geschehenG1096 sehetG1492, erkennetG1097, daßG3754 das ReichG932 GottesG2316 naheG1451 istG2076. 32WahrlichG281, ich sageG3004 euchG5213, daßG3754 diesesG3778 GeschlechtG1074 nichtG3364 vergehen wirdG3928 ,G302 bisG2193 allesG3956 geschehen istG1096. 33Der HimmelG3772 undG2532 die ErdeG1093 werden vergehenG3928, meineG3450 WorteG3056 aberG1161 werden nichtG3364 vergehenG3928. 34HütetG4337 euchG1438 aberG1161, daßG3379 eureG5216 HerzenG2588 nicht etwaG3379 beschwert werdenG925 durchG1722 VöllereiG2897 undG2532 TrunkenheitG3178 undG2532 LebenssorgenG3308 G982, undG2532 jenerG1565 TagG2250 plötzlichG160 überG1909 euchG5209 hereinbrecheG2186; 35dennG1063 wieG5613 ein FallstrickG3803 wird er kommenG1904 überG1909 alleG3956, die aufG1909 dem ganzenG3956 ErdbodenG4383 G1093 ansässig sindG2521. 36WachetG69 nunG3767, zuG1722 allerG3956 ZeitG2540 betendG1189, auf daßG2443 ihr würdig geachtet werdetG2661, diesemG5023 allemG3956, was geschehenG1096 sollG3195, zu entfliehenG1628 undG2532 vorG1715 dem SohneG5207 des MenschenG444 zu stehenG2476. 37Er lehrteG2258 G1321 aberG1161 des TagesG2250 inG1722 dem TempelG2411, undG1161 des NachtsG3571 ging er hinausG1831 und übernachteteG835 aufG1519 dem BergeG3735, welcher ÖlbergG1636 genannt wirdG2564. 38UndG2532 das ganzeG3956 VolkG2992 kam frühmorgensG3719 imG1722 TempelG2411 zuG4314 ihmG846, ihnG846 zu hörenG191.
Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary 1 THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES. (
Luke 21:1-
Luke 21:4)
looked up--He had "sat down over against the treasury" (
Mark 12:41), probably to rest, for He had continued long standing as he taught in the temple court (
Mark 11:27), and "looking up He saw"--as in Zaccheus' case, not quite casually.
the rich, &c.--"the people," says
Mark 12:41 "cast money into the treasury, and many rich east in much"; that is, into chests deposited in one of the courts of the temple to receive the offerings of the people towards its maintenance (
2Kgs 12:9;
John 8:20).
2 two mites--"which make a farthing" (
Mark 12:42), the smallest Jewish coin. "She might have kept one" [BENGEL].
3 And he said--"to His disciples," whom He "called to Him" (
Mark 12:43), to teach from it a great future lesson.
more than . . . all--in proportion to her means, which is God's standard (
2Cor 8:12).
4 of their abundance--their superfluity; what they had to spare," or beyond what they needed.
of her penury--or "want" (
Mark 12:44) --her deficiency, of what was less than her own wants required, "all the living she had." Mark (
Mark 12:44) still more emphatically, "all that she had--her whole subsistence." Note: (1) As temple offerings are needed still for the service of Christ at home and abroad, so "looking down" now, as then "up," Me "sees" who "cast in," and how much. (2) Christ's standard of commendable offering is not our superfluity, but our deficiency--not what will never be missed, but what costs us some real sacrifice, and just in proportion to the relative amount of that sacrifice. (See
2Cor 8:1-3.)
5 CHRIST'S PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND WARNINGS TO PREPARE FOR HIS SECOND COMING, SUGGESTED BY IT--HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS DURING HIS LAST WEEK. (Luke 21:5-38)
(See on
Matt 24:1-
Matt 24:3.)
8 the time--of the Kingdom, in its full glory.
go . . . not . . . after them--"I come not so very soon" (
2Thess 2:1-2) [STIER].
9 not terrified--(See
Luke 21:19;
Isa 8:11-
Isa 8:14).
end not by and by--or immediately, not yet (
Matt 24:6;
Mark 13:7): that is, "Worse must come before all is over."
10 Nation, &c.--Matthew and Mark (
Matt 24:8;
Mark 13:8) add, "All these are the beginning of sorrows," or travail pangs, to which heavy calamities are compared (
Jer 4:31, &c.).
12 brought before, &c.--The book of Acts verifies all this.
13 for a testimony--an opportunity of bearing testimony.
18 not a hair . . . perish--He had just said (
Luke 21:16) they should be put to death; showing that this precious promise is far above immunity from mere bodily harm, and furnishing a key to the right interpretation of the ninety-first Psalm, and such like. Matthew adds the following (
Matt 24:12): "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many," the many or, the most--the generality of professed disciples--"shall wax cold." But he that endureth to the end shall be saved. Sad illustrations of the effect of abounding iniquity in cooling the love of faithful disciples we have in the Epistle of James, written about this period referred to, and too frequently ever since (
Heb 10:38-
Heb 10:39;
Rev 2:10). "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness, and then shall the end come" (
Matt 24:14). God never sends judgment without previous warning; and there can be no doubt that the Jews, already dispersed over most known countries, had nearly all heard the Gospel "as a witness," before the end of the Jewish state. The same principle was repeated and will repeat itself to the end.
20 by armies--encamped armies, that is, besieged: "the abomination of desolation" (meaning the Roman ensigns, as the symbols of an idolatrous, pagan, unclean power) "spoken of by Daniel the prophet" (
Dan 9:27) "standing where it ought not" (
Mark 13:14). "Whoso readeth [that prophecy] let him understand" (
Matt 24:15).
Then . . . flee, &c.--EUSEBIUS says the Christians fled to Pella, at the north extremity of Perea, being "prophetically directed"; perhaps by some prophetic intimation still more explicit than this, which still would be their chart.
23 woe unto--"alas for."
with child, &c.--from the greater suffering it would involve; as also "flight in winter, and on the sabbath," which they were to "pray" against (
Matt 24:20), the one as more trying to the body, the other to the soul. "For then shall be tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world, nor ever shall be"--language not unusual in the Old Testament for tremendous calamities, though of this it may perhaps be literally said, "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved, but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened" (
Matt 24:21-
Matt 24:22). But for this merciful "shortening," brought about by a remarkable concurrence of causes, the whole nation would have perished, in which there yet remained a remnant to be afterwards gathered out. Here in Matthew and Mark (
Matt 24:24;
Mark 13:22) are some particulars about "false Christs," who should, "if possible"--a precious clause--"deceive the very elect." (Compare
2Thess 2:9-11;
Rev 13:13.)
24 Jerusalem . . . trodden down . . . until, &c.--Implying (1) that one day Jerusalem shall cease to be "trodden down by the Gentiles" (
Rev 11:2), as then by pagan so now by Mohammedan unbelievers; (2) that this shall be at the "completion" of "the times of the Gentiles," which from
Rom 11:25 (taken from this) we conclude to mean till the Gentiles have had their full time of that place in the Church which the Jews in their time had before them--after which, the Jews being again "grafted into their own olive tree," one Church of Jew and Gentile together shall fill the earth (Rom. 11:1-36). What a vista this opens up!
25 signs, &c.--Though the grandeur of this language carries the mind over the head of all periods but that of Christ's second coming, nearly every expression will be found used of the Lord's coming in terrible national judgments, as of Babylon, &c.; and from
Luke 21:28,
Luke 21:32, it seems undeniable that its immediate reference was to the destruction of Jerusalem, though its ultimate reference beyond doubt is to Christ's final coming.
28 redemption--from the oppression of ecclesiastical despotism and legal bondage by the total subversion of the Jewish state and the firm establishment of the evangelical kingdom (
Luke 21:31). But the words are of far wider and more precious import. Matthew (
Matt 24:30) says, "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven," evidently something distinct from Himself, mentioned immediately after. What this was intended to mean, interpreters are not agreed. But as before Christ came to destroy Jerusalem, some appalling portents were seen in the air, so before His personal appearing it is likely that something analogous will be witnessed, though of what nature it is vain to conjecture.
32 This generation--not "this nation," as some interpret it, which, though admissible in itself, seems very unnatural here. It is rather as in
Luke 9:27.
34 surfeiting, and drunkenness--All animal excesses, quenching spirituality.
cares of this life--(See on
Mark 4:7;
Mark 4:19).
36 Watch . . . pray, &c.--the two great duties which in prospect of trial are constantly enjoined. These warnings, suggested by the need of preparedness for the tremendous calamities approaching, and the total wreck of the existing state of things, are the general improvement of the whole discourse, carrying the mind forward to Judgment and Vengeance of another kind and on a grander and more awful scale--not ecclesiastical or political but personal, not temporal but eternal--when all safety and blessedness will be found to lie in being able to "STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN" in the glory of His personal appearing.
37 in the daytime--of this His last week.
abode in the mount--that is, at Bethany (
Matt 21:17).