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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:28

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot ,.... When he lived in Sodom, and before, and at the time of the destruction of that city with other neighbouring ones: they did eat, they drank ; See Gill on Luke 17:27 , and Ezekiel 16:49 . This is to be understood of the inhabitants of Sodom, and the other cities that perished with it: they bought, they sold : they traded among themselves, and with their neighbours; and, as it appears from the text referred to, they had no regard to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:29

But the same day Lot went out of Sodom ,.... Being plucked and brought from thence by the angels early in the morning; and a fine morning it was; the sun was risen, and shone out upon the earth, as Lot got into Zoar, Genesis 19:15 . "The Jews" F9 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 50. fol. 45. 3. say it was the sixteenth day of Nisan: it rained fire and brimstone from heaven ; the Syriac version reads, "the Lord rained"; so it is said in Genesis 19:24 "the Lord rained from the Lord";... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:30

Even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed. In his power, when he comes to avenge himself on the Jews; and when he is revealed from heaven in flaming fire, at the last day. As in the days of Noah and Lot, men lived in great carnality and security, thoughtless and fearless of danger, so were the Jews before the destruction of their city and temple, buoying themselves up with deliverance to the last; and such will be the times of indolence and supineness, before the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:31

In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop ,.... Either for diversion or devotion, when he shall hear that the Roman armies are approaching to Jerusalem, to besiege it: and his stuff in the house ; or "his vessels", his goods and furniture; or his utensils, and instruments of trade and business: let him not come down ; the inner way of the house, from the top: to take it away ; with him in his flight, but let him descend by the steps, or ladder, on the outside of the house,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:32

Remember Lot's wife. Whose name by the Jews, is said to be Adith, as some F19 Pirke Eliezer, c. 25. ; or Irith, as others F20 Baal Hatturim in Gen. xix. 26. : and who, they also say, was a native of Sodom; and that the reason of her looking, was either to see what would be the end of her father's house and family F21 Targum Jon. & Hieros. in ib. ; or as others F23 Pirke Eliezer ib. , because her heart yearned after her daughters, and she looked back to see if they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:33

Whosoever shall seek to save his life ,.... By fleeing to some strong hold, or by continuing in the metropolis, and strongest city in the nation, Jerusalem: shall lose it : there he will be in the greatest danger: and whosoever shall lose his life ; or expose it to danger, by fleeing to the mountains, or going to Pella, a small town beyond Jordan, of no strength, and where there might be thought no security; shall preserve it ; he shall be safe; See Gill on Matthew 16:25 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:34

I tell you, in that night ,.... Of affliction and calamity, that shall be upon the Jewish nation, and which is before called that day, Luke 17:31 and therefore is not to be understood literally of the night: there shall be two men in one bed ; this is said agreeably to the time, the night before mentioned, that being the time to be in bed, at rest and asleep; for they that sleep, sleep in the night; and still suggests the security the people of the Jews would be in, at the time of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:35

Two women shall be grinding together ,.... In Matthew 24:41 it is added, "in the mill"; in the house where the mill was, and at one and the same mill; and so the Ethiopic version here, "two shall grind in one mill": and it was common for two women to grind at one hand mill; and though the word "women" is not in the text, it is rightly put into the translation; since the word used is of the feminine gender, and since grinding was the business of women; and so the Persic version here... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:36

Two men shall be in the field ,.... At work there, tilling the ground, or sowing the seed in it, or reaping the corn; which of them soever was the work of the field, at the time of Jerusalem's destruction: the one shall be taken, and the other left : the circumstances attending these several, instances show, that they cannot be considered as expressive of the use and effect of the preaching of the Gospel, that being the savour of life unto life to some, and the savour of death unto death... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:20

Cometh not with observation - With scrupulous observation. That this is the proper meaning of the original, μετα παρατηρησεως , Kypke and others have amply proved from the best Greek writers. As if he had said: "The kingdom of God, the glorious religion of the Messiah, does not come in such a way as to be discerned only by sagacious critics, or is only to be seen by those who are scrupulously watching for it; it is not of such a nature as to be confined to one place, so that men might say... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:36

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 17:20

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