Luke 17:36 - Exposition

is wanting in nearly all the oldest authorities. It was subsequently inserted in this place by copyists from Matthew 24:40 —a passage in which much of the imagery here used was repeated by the Master. In one important feature this discourse differs from that delivered at Jerusalem a little later, and reported at length by St. Matthew in his twenty-fourth chapter. There is no reference here (in St. Luke) to the siege of Jerusalem; the whole teaching is purely teleological, and deals exclusively with what will take place at the close of this age.