Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
Matthew 24:16
Matthew 24:16. Flee unto the mountains. The Christians in Judea accordingly fled to Pella, over the mountains in Perea, and were safe in all those days of horror.
Matthew 24:16. Flee unto the mountains. The Christians in Judea accordingly fled to Pella, over the mountains in Perea, and were safe in all those days of horror.
Verse Matthew 24:16. _THEN LET THEM WHICH BE IN JUDEA FLEE INTO THE_ _MOUNTAINS_] This counsel was remembered and wisely followed by the Christians afterwards. _Eusebius_ and _Epiphanius_ say, that a...
THEN LET THEM ... - Then Christians may know that the end is come, and should seek a place of safety. Destruction would not only visit the “city,” but would extend to the surrounding part of Judea. TH...
12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...
MATTHEW 24 F. THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE, AND THE PARABLES OF PAROUSIA (Mark 13*, Luke 21:5 *, Luke 17:23). Mt. follows Mk. fairly closely, but appends other eschatological sayings and illustrative...
"When you see the desolating abomination, which was spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let him who reads understand), then let him who is in Judaea flee to the mountains. Let...
THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...
1: When Jesus had left the precincts of the Temple, he was going away; and his disciples came to him to point out to him the 2: buildings of the Temple area. He said to them, "Do you not see all these...
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_let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains_ Many Christians, warned by this prediction (according to Euseblus, _H.E._iii. 5, "by a certain oracle"), took refuge at Pella in Peræa during the s...
Matthew 24:1-22. PREDICTION OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM Mark 13:1–end. Luke 21:5-36 This chapter opens with the great discourse of Jesus, which is continued to the end of ch. 25. That discourse contains...
ΦΕΥΓΈΤΩΣΑΝ ἘΠῚ ΤᾺ ὌΡΗ. Many Christians, warned by this prediction (according to Eusebius, _H.E._ III. 5, ‘by a certain oracle’), took refuge at Pella in Peræa during the siege of Jerusalem. The mounta...
Ver 15. "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16. Then let them which be in Judaea...
_SIGN CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 24:15-33:_ Jesus gave a real sign for the Jews to look for as the destruction of Jerusalem approached. The real sign Jesus gave was the fulfillmen...
ΦΕΥΓΈΤΩΣΑΝ _praes. imper. act. 3 pers. pl. от_ ΦΕΎΓΩ (G5343) бежать. Для иудеев это означало побег в суровую иудейскую пустыню, где находились горы, изрытые пещерами, — традиционное убежище (Gundry)....
WHEN YE THEREFORE SHALL SEE, &C.— Whatever difficulty there be in these words, it may be cleared up by the parallel place, Luke 21:20. Whence it appears, that the _abomination_ of _desolation_ is the...
B. SPECIFIC, TRUE INFORMATION ABOUT JERUSALEM'S DESTRUCTION (24:14-28) TEXT: 24:14-28 (Parallels: Mark 13:14-20; Luke 21:20-24) 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world...
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...
1-14 Compare Mar_13:1-13; Luk_21:5-19. 1 The sanctuary was doomed, for it was no longer even a nominal shrine after He had left its courts. It was almost unbelievable that such buildings, with such en...
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...
The flight of the Christians before the fall of Jerusalem. 15. The abomination of desolation] i.e. the abomination which makes the Temple desolate, by causing God to forsake it (Daniel 9:27). Some def...
FLEE INTO THE MOUNTAINS] Eusebius says, 'But the members of the Church in Jerusalem, having been commanded before the war in accordance with a certain oracle given by revelation to the men of repute t...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came u...
THEN LET THEM WHICH BE IN JUDSEA. — The words were acted on when the time came. Eusebius (_Hist. Eccl._ iii. 5) records that the Christians of Judæa, acting “on a certain oracle,” fled, in A.D. 68, to...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἰ., those in Judaea who have no part in the struggle, with special reference to disciples of Jesus. There would naturally be some in the city, therefore the counsel to fly must refer to a poi...
_The end at last_ (Mark 13:14-20; Luke 21:20-24). ὅταν οὖν, when _therefore_, referring partly to the preceding mention of the end, partly to the effect of the whole preceding statement: “This I have...
BEWARE OF FALSE CHRISTS Matthew 24:15-28 The abomination of desolation is explained in Luke 21:20, and probably refers to the Roman ensigns as the symbols of pagan and therefore unclean power. So urg...
Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...
_Then let those. It is well known that this prophecy was verified to the letter, in the destruction of Jerusalem. For, as the Roman army advanced, all the Christians who were in the province, forewarn...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) (16) Then let them which be in Judaea flee in...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
16._Then let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains. _Having shown by the testimony of the prophet that, when the temple had been profaned, the services of the Law would soon afterwards be abolis...
We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...
THEN LET THEM WHICH BE IN JUDEA,.... When this signal is given, let it be taken notice of and observed; let them that are in the city of Jerusalem, depart out of it; or who are in any other parts of J...
Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Ver. 16. _Flee into the mountains_] As Lot at length did, for Zoar was too hot to hold him; so should Judea be for these, who were therefore...
FLEE INTO THE MOUNTAINS; to save themselves, and prevent their being taken by the Romans....
The abomination of desolation:...
THEN LET THEM WHICH BE IN JUDEA FLEE INTO THE MOUNTAINS;...
He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...
4-28 The disciples had asked concerning the times, When these things should be? Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, What shall be the sign? This question he answers fully. Th...
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“Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains,” And when the people of Judaea saw the danger of the armies of Rome surrounding Jerusalem they were to flee to the mountains, for the Roman sea...
JESUS' ANSWER TO THE QUESTION AS TO WHEN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE THAT THEY HAD BEEN SURVEYING WOULD TAKE PLACE (24:15-21). We should note first that what is described here refers to the Jews on...
WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...
JESUS' WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE FUTURE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-26). After having prepared His disciples and would be...
FLEE UNTO THE MOUNTAINS (φευγετωσαν εις τα ορη). The mountains east of the Jordan. Eusebius (_H.E._ iii,5,3) says that the Christians actually fled to Pella at the foot of the mountains about seven...
THEN LET THEM WHICH Compare (Luke 21:20). The passage in Luke refers in express terms to a destruction of Jerusalem which was fulfilled by Titus, A.D. 70; the passage in Matthew to a future crisis i...
Matthew 24:1. _And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple._ Ah, me! the rejected king took but slight interest in the...
Matthew 24:1. _And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciple came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily...
CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...
Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...
YOU WILL SEE THE AWFUL HORROR.' Luke says: _"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies._ (Luke 21:20). This identifies The Awful Horror' as the Roman army. Cestius Gallus, first in 66 A.D.; Vespasia...
_When ye therefore shall the abomination of desolation._ THE GREAT JUDGMENT The prophecy was by no means exhausted by what happened to Jerusalem. Though it begins there, it does not stop there. Hist...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:16 FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS. During the Jewish revolt (A.D. 67), Jesus’ warning was fulfilled when Christians fled to the mountains of Pella....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:1 The Delay, Return, and Judgment of the Messiah. These two chapters are often called the “Olivet Discourse” because Jesus “sat on the Mount of Olives” when he spoke these w...
JESUS TELLS ABOUT THE FUTURE MATTHEW 24:1-28; MARK 13:1-23; LUKE 21:5-24; MATTHEW 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple
1-51 CHAPTER 24 _And Jesus went out_, &c., according to His custom at eventide, to the Mount of Olives, to pass the night, and partake of food at Bethany, in the house of Martha and Mary, after He h...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 24:15. THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION.—_I.e_. “the abomination that maketh desolate,” “the act of sacrilege, which is a sign and a cause of desolation.” What special act of sa...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. ...
Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...
Exodus 9:20; Exodus 9:21; Genesis 19:15; Hebrews 11:7; Jeremiah 37:11
Then let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains — So the Christians did, and were preserved. It is remarkable that after the Romans under Cestus Gallus made their first advances toward Jerusalem,...
The meaning is, "As soon as you shall see the Roman army appear before the city of Jerusalem, let every one that values his own safety, fly as far and as fast as he can, even as Lot fled out of Sodom;...