LUKE CHAPTER 21 LUKE 21:1 Christ values the poor widow's two mites
above all the larger offerings of the rich, LUKE 21:5,6 foretells the
destruction of the temple, LUKE 21:7 the signs and calamities that
should precede and accompany it, LUKE 21:25 and what should happen at
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Ver. 5,6. Matthew and Mark say, that some of his disciples spake these
words to him, and received this answer, as he was going out of the
temple. For the GOODLY STONES which the disciples admired, we are told
that there were some of them forty-five cubits long, five in depth,
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Mark saith, _Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately._
Matthew brings two things more within the compass of their question,
viz. _What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the
world?_ Our Saviour answereth this question from LUKE 21:8. The most
of what he saith we have befor... [ Continue Reading ]
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"MARK 13:5", and SEE POOLE ON "MARK 13:6". This happened, and was
abundantly fulfilled, before the destruction of Jerusalem, and
probably will receive a further fulfilling in the latter end of the
world. But before the destructio... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 9-11. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:6", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:7",
and SEE POOLE ON "MARK 13:8". Time is the best interpreter of
prophecies: what shall be seen of these before the end of the world we
are yet to observe, but the destruction of Jerusalem is past many
hundreds of years since. What co... [ Continue Reading ]
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We have all this justified from holy writ, ACTS 4:3 ACTS 5:18 ACTS
7:4, ACTS 16:24. What of this shall be seen before the end of the
world, time must show; though the prophecies of holy writ speak enough
of that also.... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, your persecution shall TURN TO YOU FOR A TESTIMONY: for a
testimony against your adversaries; so as they themselves shall be
brought by your confession of me to own me as the true Messiah; and
their cruelty, which they mask under the vizor of religion, shall be
openly detected, and it shall... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 14,15. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 10:19", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW
10:20", SEE POOLE ON "MARK 13:11". We must not think that our Saviour
by this forbids us what is naturally impossible for us to avoid, that
is, the forming of those words first in our thoughts which we speak,
nor yet a prudent thinking... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 16,17. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:9", SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:10",
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It is a proverbial speech, signifying that they should have no hurt or
damage by any thing which their enemies should do against them. When
at the last you come to cast up your accounts, you shall find you have
lost nothing, and your enemies shall also find that they have gained
nothing.... [ Continue Reading ]
Patience is either passive, seen in a quiet, free, and courageous
suffering those evils which God will please in his providence to order
us for our portion; or active, seen in a quiet believing, waiting for,
and expectation of what God hath promised. POSSESS YOUR SOULS, that
is, yourselves; do not d... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 20-22. After our Saviour's ascension, the seditions amongst the
Jews were so many, and they rebelled so often against the Romans,
during the governments of Felix, Festus, Albinus, and Florus, that the
Romans resolved wholly to destroy them, and to that purpose Titus
Vespasian was sent with an a... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 23,24. Josephus tells us, that in the wars which ended in the
taking of Jerusalem, by the famine and the sword there perished one
million one hundred thousand Jews, and ninety seven thousand were
carried into captivity. Jerusalem ever since that time hath been
TRODDEN DOWN BY THE GENTILES, the... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 25,26. We may easily imagine, that this was eminently fulfilled
in the siege of Jerusalem, that men's hearts failed them for fear; and
for prodigies, we are told of enough, both by Josephus and Tacitus,
the latter tells us, that armies were seen fighting in the air with
glistering armour, and t... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 27,28. Matthew seemeth to expound this, MATTHEW 24:31; so doth
MARK 13:27. Both speak to the same sense: _And he shall send his
angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together
his elect from the four winds, from, one end of heaven to the other._
This is certainly to be un... [ Continue Reading ]
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Ver. 29-33. We had this same parable both in Matthew and Mark. SEE
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Ver. 34-36. I take the LUKE 21:34 to be a good exposition of the term
_watch,_ LUKE 21:36. Avoid sin industriously, in a prospect of my
coming to judgment: for sin is compared to sleep, ROMANS 13:11
EPHESIANS 5:14; and as he that watcheth doth not only wake, but
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Ver. 37,38 In these two verses our evangelist letteth us knew how
Christ spent those few days which he had yet to live. In the day time
he was in the temple preaching; in the evening he was on the mount of
Olives praying; to teach all those, who as under shepherds derive from
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