“ All these are the beginning of sorrows. ”
The beginning of sorrows - Far heavier calamities are yet to come before the end.
All these [are] the beginning of (c) sorrows. (c) Literally, "of great torments", just like women in childbirth.
Matthew 24 f. The Eschatological Discourse, and the Parables of Parousia (Mark 13*, Luke 21:5-36 *, Luke 17:23-37 ). Mt. follows Mk. fairly closely, but appends other eschatological sayings and...
the . a. sorrows . birth-pangs.
8. But all these things are the beginnings of sorrows. Not that believers, who always have abundant consolations in calamities, should consume themselves with grief, but that they should lay...
All these are the beginning of sorrows. All these are the beginning of sorrows - Ωδινων, travailing pains. The whole land of Judea is represented under the notion of a woman in grievous travail; bu...
All these are the beginning of sorrows— αρχη ωδινων, the beginning of throes, or pangs. Great troubles and calamities are often expressed in Scripture language metaphorically, by the pangs of t...
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best a...
The Destruction of Jerusalem and the End of the World Foretold 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. The buildings ] The magni...
The beginning of sorrows. — The words mean strictly, the beginning of travail pangs. The troubles through which the world passes are thought of as issuing in a “new birth” — the “regeneration” of...
Chapter 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1-51 & Matthew 25:1-46 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge...
Be Ready to Endure Matthew 24:1-14 Successive generations have pored over these words of our Lord with great eagerness, endeavoring to extract from them a clear forecast of the future. In the c...
Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left...
"And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? (4)...
All these are the beginning of sorrows ,.... They were only a prelude unto them, and forerunners of them; they were only some foretastes of what would be, and were far from being the worst that shou...
All these are the beginning of sorrows. Ver. 8. All these are the beginning, &c. ] q.d. There yet remain far worse matters than war, -famine, pestilence, earthquakes. Adhuc restant gravi...
And ye shall hear of wars , &c. This is the second sign. That there were wars and rumours of wars, appears by all the historians of those times, and above all by Josephus. To relate the particul...
He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the...
Awful Predictions. 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name,...
Ver. 6-8. Mark hath the same, Mark 13:7,8 . Luke hath also much the same, Luke 21:9-11 , only he addeth, fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. Interpreters think this pro...
Jesus' Words After Leaving The Temple About The Future History of the World, About The Destruction Of The Temple And About His Second Coming (24:1-26). After having prepared His disciples and woul...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 24:1 . To show Him the buildings of the temple .—Was that glorious house indeed to be left “desolate”? Would not the sight of its glories lead Him to recall those words of...
Matthew 24:6-8 The Storm and Strife of Life. I. It was with the clearest prevision of the course of the development of Christendom that the Saviour uttered this dark prediction. He knew that stri...
Matthew 24:1 . And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. Ah, me! the rejected king took but slight interest in t...
Matthew 24:1 . The buildings of the temple. Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the secon...
EXPOSITION Matthew 24:1-40 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM , AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END . ( Mark 13:1-41 ; Luke 21:5-42 .) There is no reason to think,...
Other external signs:
1 Peter 4:17 ; 1 Peter 4:18 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; Deuteronomy 28:59 ; Isaiah 10:4 ; Isaiah 9:12 ; Isaiah 9:17 ; Isaiah 9:21 ; Leviticus 26:18-29