The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:5-7
The temple — its impending ruin. The disciples ' questions. read more
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Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:5-38
Preliminaries of the second advent. It would seem that, as an interlude amid his diligent teaching in Jerusalem, Jesus and the disciples, on their way back to Bethany, had paused on the Mount of Olives and contemplated the temple. The building was a superb one, and so well put together that the disciples and people generally believed it would last till doomsday. Hence, amid their admiration for the gorgeous pile, came their question about the end of the world, which would, they believed,... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:6
There shall not be left one stone upon another . There is a remarkable passage in 2 Esdr. 10:54, "In the place wherein the Highest beginneth to show his city, there can no man's building be able to stand." The Lord's words were fulfilled, in spite of the strong wish of Titus to spare the temple. Josephus, writing upon the utter demolition of the city and temple, says that, with the exception of Herod's three great towers and part of the western wall, the whole circuit of the city was so... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:7
And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? St. Mark ( Mark 13:3 ) tells us that these questioners were Peter and James, John and Andrew. They said to their Master, "When shall these things be, and what sign shall precede them?" They asked their question with mingled feelings of awe and gladness: of awe, for the ruin of their loved temple, and all that would probably accompany the catastrophe, was a... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:8
Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ . Many of these pretenders appeared in the lifetime of the apostles. Josephus mentions several of these impostors ('Ant.,' 20.8 §§ 6-10; 'Bell. Jud.,' 2.13. § 5). Theudas, one of these pretenders, is referred to in Acts 21:38 (see, too, Josephus, 'Ant.,' 20.5. § 1). Simon Magus announced that he was Messiah. His riyal Dositheus, his disciple Menander, advanced similar pretences. Mr. Greswell (quoted by Dean Manse], 'Speaker's Commentary,' on ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:8-19
The apparent signs which ( could show themselves, but which must not be mistaken for the true signs immediately preceding the catastrophe. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:9-10
Wars and commotions … nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom . Josephus the Jewish, and Tacitus the Roman, historian—the former in his 'Jewish Wars,' and the latter in his 'Annals'—describe the period which immediately followed the Crucifixion as full of wars, crimes, violences, earthquakes. "It was a time," says Tacitus, "rich in disasters, horrible with battles, torn with seditions, savage even in peace itself." read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:11
Great earthquakes . These seem to have been very frequent during the period; we hear of them in Palestine, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Crete, Syria. Famines and pestilences . The Jewish and pagan historians of this time—Josephus, Suetonius, Taecitus, and others—enumerate several memorable instances of these scourges in this eventful time. Fearful sights and great signs . Among the former may be especially enumerated the foul and terrible scenes connected with the proceedings of the... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:12
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you. The Master continues his prophetic picture. From speaking generally of wars, and disasters, and tumults, and awful natural phenomena, which would mark the sad age in which his hearers were living, he proceeded to tell them of things which would surely befall them. But even then, though terrible trials would be their lot, they were not to be dismayed, nor to dream that the great catastrophe he had been predicting... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 21:5-6
The destructible and the indestructible. We have our Lord's own authority for comparing the temple with a human being ( John 2:19 ). He, however, compared it with his body; we may without any impropriety make the comparison with a human spirit—with the man himself. We look at it in regard to its destructibleness. I. THE BUILDING ITSELF , AND OUR BEING ITSELF . The temple was the pride and the delight of every Jew. Among other things that gratified him, he rejoiced in... read more