Matthew 24:34

Matthew 24:34. This generation. Explanations. (1.) ‘Generation' in the literal sense, the reference being to the destruction of Jerusalem. This is opposed by Matthew 24:36, nor is it allowable to accept a double sense in general, and confine this phrase to a single sense. (2.) ‘Generation' in the sense of ‘race,' as often. (a) Applied to the Jewish nation, meaning that the Jewish people shall-remain until the fulfilment of all these things, and that one of the signs of the final fulfilment, will be a sudden greening of that withered race. This is the most striking and natural view, (b) Applied to the spiritual Israel, the generation of true believers. The single advantage of this is that it extends ‘ye,' in Matthew 24:33, to the whole body of believers ; but that would be easily so understood without this.

Till all these things, including apparently both the signs and the coming.

Be done, literally, ‘become.' The idea of actual occurrence is the prominent one, not that of fulfilment.