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**And He looked up** , &c. The Lord was still in the Temple, showing that this prophetic discourse is not the same as that spoken later on the Mount of Olives. They are similar to [Luke 21:11](../../../kjv/luke/21/11) , when the Lord goes back and speaks of what shall happen "before all these things". See App-165 .
**looked up** . Greek. *anablepo.* App-133 .
**saw** . Greek. *eidon.* App-133 .
**into** . Greek. *eis.* App-104 .
**the treasury** . See note on [Matthew 24:1](../../../kjv/matthew/24/1) and [Mark 12:41](../../../kjv/mark/12/41) . Compare [John 8:20](../../../kjv/john/8/20) .

**also a certain poor widow** = a certain poor widow also.
**poor** . Greek. *penichros =* one who works for daily bread. Occurs only here.
**mites** . Greek. *lepta.* See App-51 .

**more** . *As* a matter of proportion.

**of** = out of. (Greek. *ek.* App-104 .
**unto** . Greek. *eis,* as in [Luke 21:1](../../../kjv/luke/21/1) .
**offerings** = gifts. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the chest containing them.
**God.** See App-98 .
**penury** = lack, or want.
**living** = livelihood. Greek. *hies.* App-170 .

**of** = about. Greek. *peri.* App-104 .
**the temple** . Greek. *hieron.* See note on [Matthew 23:18](../../../kjv/matthew/23/18) .
**gifts** = dedicated gifts. Greek. Plural of *anathema.* Occurs only here. Compare Josephus, *Bell. Jud.* V. 5 4.

**behold** = are gazing at. Greek. *theoreo.* *App-133* *.* in. Greek. *en.* *App-104* *.*
**one stone upon another** = stone upon (Greek. *epi.* App-104 .) stone.
**not.** Greek. *ou.* App-105 .

**they** : i.e. "the some" of [Luke 21:5](../../../kjv/luke/21/5) . Not any of the Apostles. See App-155 .
**Master** = Teacher. See App-98 . [Luke 21:1](../../../kjv/luke/21/1) .
**when . . . what?** Note the two questions here, and the three on the later occasion. See App-155 .
**sign** = the sign. Greek. *to semeion.* App-176 .
**shall come to pass?** = may be about to take place?

**And He said** , &c. See App-155 .
**Take heed** . Greek. *blepo.* App-133 .
**not** . Greek. *me.* App-105 .
**deceived** = misled.
**for many** , &c. This was speedily fulfilled. It was the first sign as to "when" ([Luke 21:7](../../../kjv/luke/21/7) ). Compare [1 John 2:18](../../../kjv/1-john/2/18) , "the last hour. "
**in** . Greek. *epi.* App-104 .
**time** = season.
**draweth** = has drawn.

**commotions** = unrest. Occurs only here, and [1 Corinthians 14:33](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/14/33) . [2 Corinthians 6:5](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/6/5) ; [2 Corinthians 12:20](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/12/20) . [James 3:16](../../../kjv/james/3/16) .
**be not terrified** = be not scared. Greek. *ptoeo.* Occurs only here and [Luke 24:37](../../../kjv/luke/24/37) .
**first** . See the Structure, above.
**the end.** Greek. *totelex.* Not the sunteleia. Compare [Matthew 24:3](../../../kjv/matthew/24/3) and [Matthew 24:14](../../../kjv/matthew/24/14) ,
**by and by** = immediately. As in [Matthew 24:6](../../../kjv/matthew/24/6) , "not yet", [Mark 13:7](../../../kjv/mark/13/7) . Compare [Luke 17:7](../../../kjv/luke/17/7) . [Matthew 14:31](../../../kjv/matthew/14/31) .[Mark 6:25](../../../kjv/mark/6/25) . See App-155 .

**Then said He** , &c. [Matthew 24:7](../../../kjv/matthew/24/7) , [Matthew 24:8](../../../kjv/matthew/24/8) . [Mark 13:8](../../../kjv/mark/13/8) . Nation, &c. Quoted from [Isaiah 19:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/19/2) .
**against** . Greek. *epi.* App-104 .

**in divers** . Greek. *kata.* App-104 .
**famines, and pestilences** . Greek. *limoi kai loimoi.* Figure of speech *Paronomasia (* *App-6* *),* for emphasis, like Eng. "dearths and deaths". fearful sights = things that fill with fear. Greek. Plural of *phobetron.* Occurs only here, but in Septuagint [Isaiah 19:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/19/17) . In medical language = objects imagined by the sick.
**signs** . Greek. *semeion.* App-176 .
**from** . Greek. *apo.* App-104 .
**heaven** . Singular. No Art. See note on [Matthew 6:9](../../../kjv/matthew/6/9) , [Matthew 6:10](../../../kjv/matthew/6/10) .

**before all these.** The Lord goes back, here, instead of continuing, as in [Matthew 24:8](../../../kjv/matthew/24/8) , [Matthew 24:9](../../../kjv/matthew/24/9) , and [Mark 13:9](../../../kjv/mark/13/9) . See App-155 .
**before** . Greek. *pro.* App-104 .
**on** = upon. Greek. *epi.* App-104 .
**to** = unto. Greek. *eis.* App-104 .
**before** = up to. Greek. *epi.* App-104 .

**turn** = turn out.
**for** . Greek. *eis.* App-101 .
**a testimony** . Compare [Philippians 1:1](../../../kjv/philippians/1/1) , Php 1:28 . [2 Thessalonians 1:8](../../../kjv/2-thessalonians/1/8) .

**in** . Greek. *eis.* App-104 . meditate. Compare [Luke 12:11](../../../kjv/luke/12/11) .[Matthew 10:19](../../../kjv/matthew/10/19) , [Matthew 10:20](../../../kjv/matthew/10/20) .
**answer** . Compare [1 Peter 3:15](../../../kjv/1-peter/3/15) .

**a mouth and wisdom** . Note the Figure of speech *Hendiadys* ( App-6 ) = a mouth, yea, a wise mouth. Mouth, too, put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for what is spoken by it. Compare [Exodus 4:11](../../../kjv/exodus/4/11) , [Exodus 4:12](../../../kjv/exodus/4/12) .[Jeremiah 1:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/9) . [Isaiah 6:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/7) .
**to gainsay,** &c. See [Acts 4:14](../../../kjv/acts/4/14) ; [Acts 6:10](../../../kjv/acts/6/10) .

**betrayed** = delivered up.
**by** . Greek. *hupo.* App-104 .
**and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton (* *App-6* *),* for emphasis.
**of** = from among. Greek. ek. App-104 .

**of** = by. Greek. *hupo.* App-104 .
**for** = on account
**of.** Greek. *dia.* App-104 .[Luke 21:2](../../../kjv/luke/21/2) .

**not** = by no means. Greek *ou me.* App-105 .
**hair** , &c. Compare [Matthew 10:30](../../../kjv/matthew/10/30) .

**patience** = patient endurance.
**possess ye** = ye shall possess. Occurs only here, and [Luke 18:12](../../../kjv/luke/18/12) .[Matthew 10:9](../../../kjv/matthew/10/9) . [Acts 1:18](../../../kjv/acts/1/18) ; [Acts 8:20](../../../kjv/acts/8/20) ; [Acts 22:28](../../../kjv/acts/22/28) . [1 Thessalonians 4:4](../../../kjv/1-thessalonians/4/4) .
**souls** = lives. App-110 .

**Jerusalem.** This is the point of the Lord's prophecy, in Luke. There is nothing of this in Matthew or Mark. See App-155 .
**with** = by. Greek. *hupo.* App-104 .
**know** = get to know. App-132 .
**is nigh** = has drawn near.

**it** = her.
**countries** = fields.
**thereinto** = into (Greek. *eis.* App-104 .) her.

**vengeance.** Quoted from [Hosea 9:7](../../../kjv/hosea/9/7) . See [Daniel 9:26](../../../kjv/daniel/9/26) , [Daniel 9:27](../../../kjv/daniel/9/27) ; and Josephus, *Bell. Jud.* v. 10.
**all things which are written** . These and no more nor less. As in [Acts 3:21](../../../kjv/acts/3/21) .
**are written** = have been, and stand written.
**fulfilled** . As in [Luke 21:24](../../../kjv/luke/21/24) .
Not the same word as in [Luke 21:32](../../../kjv/luke/21/32) .

**in** = upon. Greek. *epi.* App-104 .
**land.** Greek. *ge.* App-129 .
**wrath** . See [1 Thessalonians 2:16](../../../kjv/1-thessalonians/2/16) .
**upon** = among. Greek. *en.* App-104 . But all the texts read "to".

**And** . Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ), for emphasis.
**edge** = mouth ([Genesis 34:26](../../../kjv/genesis/34/26) m.)
**led away captive** . Josephus speaks of 1,100,000 slain and 97,000 taken away to Egyptian mines and elsewhere *(Bell. lad. vi.* 9).
**trodden down** . Not the future tense of the verb *(pateo),* but the future of the verb "to be", with the Pass. Part, of *pateo =* shall be and remain trodden down, in a way that it had never been before. The reference is to the Mohammedan possession since A.D. 636 in succession to the "fourth" or Roman possession. See note on [Daniel 2:40](../../../kjv/daniel/2/40) .
**Gentiles** = nations, as in preceding clause.
**until** , &c. So that a day is coming when the nations will cease to tread it down, and it will be possessed by its rightful owner-Israel.
**the times** : i.e. the times of the Gentile possession of Jerusalem.

**And.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ), for emphasis.
**And there shall be** , &c. The Lord here passes over the intervening present dispensation, and takes up the yet future time of the end, enlarged on later in [Matthew 24:29-31](../../../kjv/matthew/24/29-31) .[Mark 13:24-27](../../../kjv/mark/13/24-27) .
**upon** . *Greek. epi.* App-104 .
**earth** . Greek. *ge.* App-129 . Not the same as in [Luke 21:26](../../../kjv/luke/21/26) ; but the same as "land" in [Luke 21:23](../../../kjv/luke/21/23) .
**with** . Greek. *en.* App-104 .
**the sea,** &c. Compare [Psalms 46:3](../../../kjv/psalms/46/3) .[Isaiah 5:30](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/30) . [Revelation 17:15](../../../kjv/revelation/17/15) .

**Men's** . Greek. *anthropos.* App-123 .
**failing** = fainting. Greek *apopsucho.* Occurs only here. Luke used three compounds of the simple verb ( *psucho,* [Matthew 24:12](../../../kjv/matthew/24/12) ), all peculiar to him: e.g. "cool", [Luke 16:24](../../../kjv/luke/16/24) ; "gave up the ghost", [Acts 5:5](../../../kjv/acts/5/5) , [Acts 5:10](../../../kjv/acts/5/10) ; [Acts 12:23](../../../kjv/acts/12/23) .
**for** = from. Greek. *apo.* App-104 .
**looking after** = expectation. Greek *prosdokia,* from the verb *prosdokeo.* App-133 .
**earth** = the inhabited earth. Greek. *oikoumene.* App-129 .
**the powers** , &c. App-172 . Probably refers to the angelic world rulers. See notes on [Daniel 10:13](../../../kjv/daniel/10/13) .
**heaven** = the heavens. See note on [Matthew 6:9](../../../kjv/matthew/6/9) , [Matthew 6:10](../../../kjv/matthew/6/10) .
**shall be shaken.** Compare [Matthew 11:7](../../../kjv/matthew/11/7) . Mat 6:38 . *Acts* [Luke 4:31](../../../kjv/luke/4/31) .[Hebrews 12:26](../../../kjv/hebrews/12/26) , [Hebrews 12:27](../../../kjv/hebrews/12/27) .

**see** . Greek. *opsomai.* App-133 .
**the Son of man** . App-98 .
**with** . Greek. *meta.* App-104 .

**look up** . Greek. *anakupto = watching* with outstretched neck. Occurs only here, [Luke 13:11](../../../kjv/luke/13/11) , and [John 8:7](../../../kjv/john/8/7) , [John 8:10](../../../kjv/john/8/10) .
**for** = because.
**redemption** = deliverance from the tribulation. See [Zechariah 14:1-4](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/1-4) .

**Behold** = Look
**ye** . App-133 . Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .

**now** = already.
**shoot forth** = sprout.
**ye see and know** = seeing (Greek. *blepo.* App-133 .) ye get to know. Greek. *ginosko.* App-132 .
**of** = from [experience]. Greek. *apo.* App-104 .

**So likewise ye** = so ye also.
**come** = coming.
**the kingdom of God.** See App-114 .

**Verily** . See note on [Matthew 5:18](../../../kjv/matthew/5/18) . This generation. See note on [Matthew 11:16](../../../kjv/matthew/11/16) .
**till all be fulfilled** = till (Greek. *eos an)* all may possiblyto pass. (Not the same word as "fulfilled" in [Luke 21:24](../../../kjv/luke/21/24) .) Had the nation repented at Peter's call, in [Acts 2:38](../../../kjv/acts/2/38) ; [Acts 3:19-26](../../../kjv/acts/3/19-26) , "all that the prophets had spoken" would have come to pass.

**Heaven** = the heaven. shall pass away. Compare [Psalms 102:26](../../../kjv/psalms/102/26) . Isa 51:6 . [2 Peter 3:7](../../../kjv/2-peter/3/7) , [2 Peter 3:10](../../../kjv/2-peter/3/10) .
**words** = utterances. Greek. p1. of *logos.* See note on [Mark 9:32](../../../kjv/mark/9/32) . Compare [Isaiah 40:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/8) .

**hearts.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of the Part), App-6 , for the whole person.
**overcharged** = weighed down. Greek. *baruno.* Only here. Compare [Luke 9:32](../../../kjv/luke/9/32) . [2 Corinthians 5:4](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/5/4) .
**surfeiting** . Greek. *kraipale.* A medical word used for the nausea after drunkenness, from which is the Latin *crapula.* Occurs only here. The English is from the Old French *surfait* or sorfait = excess.
**drunkenness** . Greek. *methe.* Occurs only here, [Romans 13:13](../../../kjv/romans/13/13) .[Galatians 1:5](../../../kjv/galatians/1/5) , [Galatians 1:21](../../../kjv/galatians/1/21) .
**cares** . See note on [Matthew 6:25](../../../kjv/matthew/6/25) , *"* drunkenness "of to-day; "cares" for tomorrow.
**of this life** . Greek. *biotikos = of* or belonging to bios. App-170 .
**come** = should come.
**upon** . Greek. *epi.* App-104 .
**unawares** = suddenly. Greek. *aiphnidios.* Occurs only here, and [1 Thessalonians 5:3](../../../kjv/1-thessalonians/5/3) .

**as a snare** . Compare [Ecclesiastes 9:12](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/9/12) .[Isaiah 24:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/17) .

**Watch** . See on [Mark 13:33](../../../kjv/mark/13/33) .
**and pray** = praying.
**always** = sin (Greek. *en.* App-104 .) every season.
**shall come to pass** = are about to come to pass. stand. See [Psalms 1:5](../../../kjv/psalms/1/5) .[Malachi 3:2](../../../kjv/malachi/3/2) .

**And in the day time** = by day, A parenthetic statement referring to His custom during these last six days. See App-156 . abode -used to lodge.
**in** = into: i.e. into its protecting shelter. Occurs only here, and [Matthew 21:17](../../../kjv/matthew/21/17) .

**came early in the morning.** Greek. *orthrizo.* Occurs only here. Supply the Relative *Ellipsis* thus: "[rising] early in the morning, came".
**to** . Greek. *pros.* App-104 .

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