in the Temple : in the Temple especial vengeance was to be executed hereafter.
36. Asyu, I say) sc. again. Cf. Gen. xli. 32. — %%nf shall come) i.e. as far as the beginnings of vengeance are concerned ; for its consummation extends far further ; see ver. 39. — -ramx, x.r.X, all, etc.) He who commits a sin becomes a partner in crime with all who have committed the same sin. — yevta,v, generation) see Gnomon on ch. xxiv. 34.
37. 'lipovffaXrifj,, ' I? pouffaX^, Jerusalem, Jerusalem /) A most solemn repetition.1 — ^ aKoxr'tvtuffa, thou that killesi) The parti ciple has the force of a noun.2 — X/0o/3aXoD<ra, that stonest) Such was the fate of Christ's protomartyr, Stephen, recorded in Acts vii. 58, 59. — rove aKHSrahptvovs, them that are sent) Although ambassadors are considered inviolable by the law of nations. — •TTfog aurqv, to her) i.e. wpdg <«, to thee. Cf. Luke i. 45 ; Isa. xlvii. 10. — To<ra/c/?, x.r.X., how often, etc.) As often especially as Jesus entered Judea, Jerusalem, or the Temple. See my Harmony of the Four Evangelists, and Gnomon on ch. xxi. 1. — xal oux TjQeXfiffarf, and ye would not) although / was willing. Cf. Isa. xxx. 15.
38. 'l(5o;), afhrai, Behold [your house] is left) The present tense twice expressed.3 He uttered these words as He was going out of the Temple. See ch. xxiv. 1, and cf. John xii. 315. — 6 o7xog ufiuv, your house) which is otherwise called the house of the Lord. Thus, in Ex. xxxii. 7, God says to Moses, thy people* — tpri/J>og, desolate, or desert) sc. as being left by the Messiah? Even after His ascension, Christ employed the Temple in a remarkable manner with His disciples. But with regard to Judaism, the Temple now ceased to be what it had been, and for this reason was at length destroyed ; see ver. 36. The word ewftos is often
the guilt incurred in his case was not altogether obliterated from the memory of the Jews. — Harm., p. 472.
1 " Epizeuxis." See Appendix. — ED. Full of compassion and horror alike. — V. g.
2 i.e. " Thou that art the Murderess of." — (I. B.)
3 This refers to aTroadx/w in ver. 34. — (I. B.)
4 Though on other occasions God said of them, " My people." — ED.
8 For when the Messiah is absent, there is nothing that is not desolate and deserted. — V. g.