upon the housetop the common Oriental place for cool and quiet resort. See on Luke 12:3; Luke 5:19.

his stuff i.e. his furniture or goods:

"Therefore away to get our stuff aboard."

Shaksp. Com. of Errors.

let him not come down to take it away let him escape at once by the outer steps, Matthew 24:16-18. It is clear that in these warnings, as in Matthew 24, our Lord has distinctly in view the Destruction of Jerusalem, and the awful troubles and judgments which it brought, as being the first fulfilment of the Prophecy of His Advent.

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