The /atter words of this verſe ſec fairly to admit ofa double In- terpretation ; as [9] here may ignite, the Diſciples of Chriſt, who had reccived Chriſt a& their Lord. over whom he cxerciſed a ſpiri- tual Dominion and Juriſdiction 3 or as it may reſpe& the whole Fewiſh Nation, a:nongſt whom the Kingdom of God was now exer- ciſed, by the Preaching cf the Goſpel, an'! power of Chriſt put forth in the caſting out Devils, and other mit ulous Operations. 1 incline to the latter, as differ:ng from thoſe that think theſe words were ſpoken with a pccultar rcipe& to the Diſciples, I rather think them a reply to the Phariſces, as correQive of their falſe Notion, and apprehention of the Meſſruh, as if he were yet to cone, and to ſet up a temporal principality, for it is ſaid, v. 22. And he ſaid un- to the Diſciples, as if he dig] but then ſpecially apply his diſcourſe to them 2 jagy thus ſignifieth, Chap. 7. 16. Fohn 1, 14. You (faith our. Saviour) are much miſtaken as to the nature of my Kingdom, atic indeed of the Kingdom of the Meſſiah, in the expeRation of which you live. It is not a Kingdom of the ſame nature with the K1n;- goms of the World, it cometh not with pomp and ſplendour fo: Mcn and Women to obſcrve ; they ſhall not ſay, Zo here he cometh, or Ls there he gocth, the Kingdom of God 1s now in the midft a- mong you, tho you obſerve 1t not.
22 And he faid unto the diſciples, The days will
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Before my Kingdom ſhall appear in that Glory, I muſt (ye; m1 ag Z Z 5 211 RE ny things, and be rejeCted of this Generation; you miy bu ſeduced
to think that I am going to put on a Crown as a ſecular Prince to d liver you from your Encmies : Alas ! I am going to a Crct; - i a have.a day, but this-1s mine Enemies day, and the power of ( __ both with refercnce to me and you. Look for nothing in, 9g; fro n this generation but to ſee me mocked, ſcourged, ſpit upon, buffeted. hanged upon a Croſs, rezetted by Men, theſe will be the iiſues of D ; vine Providence, asto this Generation : look for better th 2 after, but look for no better from, or in this Generatio:.
26 * And as It was in the days of Noe, ſo ſha] be alſo in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wiyes they were glven in marriage until the day that Noe tt tred into the ark: and the flood came and deſtroyed
them all.
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28 * Likewiſe alſo as it was in the days of Lot, * Gen. ts
they cid eat, they drank, they bought, they ſolg, they planted, they builded. |
2.9 But the ſame day that Lot went out of Sodom, jt _—_ = and brimſtone from heaven, and deſtroyeg them all.
' 30 Even thus ſhall it bein the day, when the Son of
man is revealed.
See the Notes on Matth. 24. 37, 38. Our bleſſed Lord in theſe Verſes doth both declare the ſurprifal of the jews with that Judg- ment which was coming upon them, and of the World, with hi coming in the day of Judgment (of wiich the deſtruftion of Jer. ſalem was a Type} and alſo forewarneth them to take hced that they might not be ſurpriſed ; he tells them, that in the days of the Son of Man , (So that he ſpeaketh of more than one day) the day of his power and the deſtruttion of the Jews,and in the day of Judg- ment, the Antitype to the former, it ſhall be as in the days of Nt: and of Lot. In the days of thoſe Men, neither the men of the old World, nor the Men of Sodom would hearken either to Noah or Lt who were Preachers of Righteouſneſs to them, and gave them Ex- amples of ſober and holy Lives, but gave up themſclves to. luxury, and lived in a careleſs diſregard of any thing God was doing, until the very day that Noah went into the Ark with his Family, and the Flood deſtroyed all the reſt ; and till the day that Lot went out of Sodom, and Fire and Brimftone came a2wn and deſtroyed all thoſe who were left in Sodom : So it would he before the final ruin of the World. Till the very days came, and Men felt it, the genes rality of Men would not believe it, nor make any preparation tor it, But in our Lords propounding theſe two great Examples to thew,he alſo lets them know their duty, and wiſdom, viz. to watch, and 2e upon their guard 3 with Zot to get out ready to go out of Sid, with Noah to prepare an Ark upon this admonition which he gave them. There are no ſuch figns of approaching ruin to Perſons or Nations, as Security, and the abounding of fin and wickedneſs not- withſtanding the warnings which God giveth them by his Melſer- C
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31 In that day, he which ſhall be upon the houſe-toy, and his ſtaff in his houſe, let him not come down to take it away : and he that is 1n the field, let himlike-
wiſe not return back, Theſe words ſeem to relate fingly to the Deſtruion of Feruſalen,
come when ye ſhall delire to ſee one of the days of the | we had theſame Math. 24. 17, 18. See the Notes there. They
Son of man, and ye ſhall not ſee 7r.
only fignifie the certain ruin and deftru&tion of the place, and arc
Our Lord ſpendeth his farther diſcourſe in this Chapter ina fore- | our Saviours Counſel to his Diſciples, not to linger, or promiſe warning of k15 Diſciples of thoſe great troubles which Mould fol- | themſelves any longer ſecurity there, notwithſtanding what any fal?
Jow Ins departare from then.
At preſent the Bridegroom was with | Chrijts, or falſe Prophets ſhould plainly tell them, but to make as
them, and they could not mourn, for many years after that he was {much haſt away out of it as they poffibly could.
deparied from them, tho dzys of the Son of Man continued, that 15, Go- ipel days, times wherein the Goſpel of Chriſt was freely Preached to them. days of the $5n of Min, and ſhall not ſee them. Theſe evil days be- 511, when falſe Thriſts and faiſe Prophets roſe up, which was moſt eminently a little before the deſtruRtion of Feryſalem, which hap- pened avout forty years after : every fattious perſon that had repu- tation enough to make himſelf the head, and leader of a FaQtion, {rating his advantage of the common error of the Jews, that a Me/- {12h .a Chrift was to come, who ſhoufd cxerciſe a temporal Kingdom over the Jews,) would pretend to be, and.give out he was the Me/- f:ah, to draw a Fattion after him. This 15 that which our Saviour fiith in the next Words.
23 And they ſhall ſay to you, See here, or See there: £0 not after tbe», nor follow them.
24 For as the lightening that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, ſhineth unto the other pare un- der heaven : ſo ſhall alſo the Son of man be in his day.