triumphal train of the Son of man coming in His glory, who is Himself to be beheld presently after, as this passage tells us.- ai puXa/, the tribes} especially of Israel. — o-^ovrai, shall see) Cf. Numb. xxiv. 17. — SKI ruv v-fpgXwi/, on the clouds) St Luke says, If vefs^r,, on a cloud) He will be attended by many chariots ;* He will be borne on a very magnificent one.
31. Toiis ayysXous AuroD, His angels) It is likely enough that, a certain number of angels may be called peculiarly the angels of Christ, although all are subject to Him. — ad^r/yog, of a trumpet) Trumpets are employed to call multitudes together ; that trumpet will have a loud voice [Eng. Vers. great sound], — iKiffuvd^oviii, they shall gather together) Cf. 2 Thess. ii. 1. — a,it axpuv ovpavuv, from the extremities of the heavens] In Mark xiii. 27, we have an cixpov yqg, from the uttermost part of the earth. — aKpov signifies any extremity. Where the earth ends, there the heaven begins : whence it happens, that the mountains and the heavens also sometimes represent each other in parallel passages. Cf. 2 Sam. xxii. 8 with Ps. xviii. 8 (7). It corresponds with the Hebrew *)33 (extremity). In Deut. xxx. 4, the LXX. have " d</r' axpou rt>\> oupavov teas cixpou TOV ovpavov," " from [the one] extremity of the heaven to [the other] extremity of the heaven ;" and thus also in Deut. iv. 32.
32. 'ATO 81 ryg ffvxys, but from the Jig-tree) An obvious matter. — rrtv, the) sc. following. — irapafiohriv, parable) a most beauti ful one.
33. TaDra cravra, these things all) The order of words ought not to be always overlooked : the emphasis, and, in speaking, the accent, frequently falls upon the first of two words. The present is the first passage which has required this to be demonstrated ; we will therefore do so [by the following examples] : — (1.) Luke xi. 36, si ovv TO ff£jfj,d ffou 'OAON pwrE/vov, py t~/<>\> ri MEPO2 ffxo- ruvbv., 'sffrcti OflTEINON oXov, wg orav o "kl^voc, ry aarpa'xri ftflTIZH <re, if then thy body [be] ALL light, not having any PART dark, it shall be LIGHT all over, as when the candle by its shining LIGHTETH thee. In this passage 6Xoi> (all, the whole, Lat. totum, Fr. touf) is emphatic before purtivov (light, Lat. lucidum), in opposition to pepo: (part) : and pursivbv is emphatic before o/.ov,
1 As is usual in a royal procession. — V. g.