[5350] Baba B 4 a; Sukk 51 b.
[5351] St. Matt. xxiii. 37-39.
[5352] St. Matt. xxiv. 1.
[5353] St. Matt. xxiv. 3.
[5354] St. Mark xiii. 1.
[5355] According to Josephus (War vii. 1. 1) the city was so upheaved and dug up, that it was difficult to believe it had ever been inhabited. At a later period Turnus Rufus had the ploughshare drawn over it. And in regard to the Temple walls, notwithstanding the massiveness of the stones, with the exception of some corner or portion of wall - left almost to show how great had been the ruin and desolation - there is, certainly, nothing now in situ.' (Capt. Wilson in the Ordnance Survey').
[5356] St. Mark xiii.3.
[5357] ts sunteleas to aonos. Godet argues that the account in the Gospel of St. Matthew contains, as in other parts of that gospel, the combined reports of addresses, delivered at different times. That may be so, but inference of Godet is certainly incorrect - that neither the question of the disciples, nor the discourse of our Lord on that occasion primarily referred to the Second Advent (the parousa). When that writer remarks, that only St. Matthew, but neither St. Mark nor St. Luke refer to such a question by the disciples, he must have overlooked that it is not only implied in the all these things' of St. Mark, and the these things' of St. Luke - which, surely, refer to more than one thing - but that the question of the disciples about the Advent takes up a distinctive part of what Christ had said on quitting the Temple, as reported in St. Matt. xxiii. 39.
[5358] St. Luke xxi. 24 &c.
[5359] Shabb. 118 a.
[5360] If these are computed to last nine months, it must have been from a kind of fanciful analogy with the sorrows' of a woman.
[5361] End of the Mishnic Tractte Sotah.
[5362] Comp. Sanh. 98 a and b.
[5363] When using the expression Advent' in this connection, we refer to the Advent of Mesiah to reign. His Messianic manifestation - not His birth.
[5364] Comp. Jos. War ii. 13, 4; and especially vi. 5. 2.
[5365] Sukk. 52 a and b.
[5366] Zech. xii. 12.
[5367] Another Rabbinic authority, however, refers it to the evil impulse,' which was, in the future, to be annihilated.
[5368] See especially Yalkut on Is. ix. vol. ii. par 359, quoted at length in Appendix IX.
[5369] Comp. J. M. Gloesener, De Gemino Jud. Mess. pp. 145 &c.; Schöttgen, Horæ Heb. ii. pp. 360-366.