Verse 24
And . Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton ( App-6 ), for emphasis.
edge = mouth (Genesis 34:26 m.)
led away captive . Josephus speaks of 1,100,000 slain and 97,000 taken away to Egyptian mines and elsewhere (Bell. lad. vi. 9).
trodden down . Not the future tense of the verb (pateo), but the future of the verb "to be", with the Pass. Part, of pateo = shall be and remain trodden down, in a way that it had never been before. The reference is to the Mohammedan possession since A.D. 636 in succession to the "fourth" or Roman possession. See note on Daniel 2:40 .
Gentiles = nations, as in preceding clause.
until , &c. So that a day is coming when the nations will cease to tread it down, and it will be possessed by its rightful owner-Israel.
the times : i.e. the times of the Gentile possession of Jerusalem.
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