Mateo 24:1-51 RVA

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:22

(22) Should no flesh be saved.—The words are of course limited by the context to the scene of the events to which the prophecy refers. The warfare with foes outside the city, and the faction-fights and massacres within, would have caused an utter depopulation of the whole country.For the elect’s sake.—Those who, as believers in Jesus, were the “remnant” of the visible Israel, and therefore the true Israel of God. It was for the sake of the Christians of Judæa, not for that of the rebellious... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:23

(23) Lo, here is Christ, or there.—Better, Lo, here is the Christ. The narrative of Josephus, while speaking of many “deceivers” claiming divine authority (Wars, ii. 13, § 4), is silent as to any pretenders to the character of the Messiah. It is scarcely conceivable, however, that this should not have been one of the results of the fevered dreams of the people, and the reticence of the historian was probably a suppressio veri connected with his own recognition of Vespasian as a quasi Christ... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:24

(24) Shall shew great signs and wonders.—Simon Magus (Acts 8:9-11) and Elymas (Acts 13:6) may be taken as representative instances of these false claimants to supernatural powers. So “signs and lying wonders” are the notes of the coming of the Wicked One, in whom the mystery of iniquity shall receive its full development (2 Thessalonians 2:9). But for the warning thus given, even the “elect”—i.e., the Christians of Judæa and Jerusalem—might have been carried away by the current of popular... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:26

(26) In the secret chambers.—The word is the same as that translated “closet” in Matthew 6:6. What is meant is that the pretenders will in some way or other shun the publicity which would test their claims. There would be whispered rumours that the Christ was concealing Himself in the wilderness beyond the Jordan, or in the inner recesses of some zealot’s house, and would at the last moment appear to claim the throne of His father David. (Comp. Jos. Wars, vi. 5, § 2). Believers in Christ would... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:27

(27) As the lightning cometh out of the east.—In this and the three preceding verses we are, as it were, on the dim border-land of the primary and the ultimate fulfilments of the words. The disciples in their questions (Matthew 24:3) had connected the destruction of Jerusalem with the “coming” of their Lord, and the two are connected even in His own words and thoughts. In whatever way He came, whether in the final destruction of the Temple and polity of Israel, or at the end of the world’s... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:28

(28) Wheresoever the carcase is.—Two interpretations of this verse may, without much risk of error, be at once rejected:—(1) That which sees in the “eagles” the well-known symbols of the strength of the Roman legions, and in the “carcass” the decayed and corrupted Judaism which those legions came to destroy. This, true as far as it goes, is too narrow and localised in its range for so wide and far-reaching a comparison. (2) The strange fantastic imagination of many of the Fathers that the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:29

(29) Immediately after the tribulation of those days.—From this point onwards the prophecy takes a wider range, and passes beyond the narrow limits of the destruction of Jerusalem to the final coming of the Son of Man, and the one is represented as following “immediately” on the other. No other meaning could have been found in the words when they were first heard or read. The “days” of this verse are those which were shortened “for the elect’s sake” (Matthew 24:22). The “tribulation” can be... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:30

(30) Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man.—Can we picture to ourselves what this sign shall be? Is it distinct from the coming of the Son of Man which here is so closely united with it? Men have given wildly conjectural answers to these questions, and have dreamt of the cross as appearing in the sky (as if the vision of Constantine were to be reproduced in the last days), or the lightning flash that shall dazzle all men with its brightness, or of some visible manifestation which none... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:31

(31) He shall send his angels.—The words are memorable as the formal expansion of what had been, as it were, hinted before in the parables of the Tares (Matthew 13:41) and the Net (Matthew 13:49).With a great sound of a trumpet.—The better MSS. omit “sound:” With a great trumpet. We know not, and cannot know, what reality will answer to this symbol, but it is interesting to note how deeply it impressed itself on the minds not only of the disciples who heard it, but of those who learnt it from... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:32

(32) Now learn a parable of the fig tree.—As in so many other instances (comp. Notes on John 8:12; John 10:1), we may think of the words as illustrated by a living example. Both time and place make this probable. It was on the Mount of Olives, where then, as now, fig trees were found as well as olives (Matthew 21:19), and the season was that of early spring, when “the flowers appear on the earth” and the “fig tree putteth forth her green figs” (Song Song of Solomon 2:11-13). And what our Lord... read more

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:24

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:26

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:27

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:28

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:29

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:30

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:31

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 24:32

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