Luke 21:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then look up,— "Look upwards, and lift up your heads with joy and assurance; for as soon as you see the first appearance of these sights, you may comfortably conclude that your redemption draweth nigh." As the resurrection is the time when we shall in fact be fully redeemed, or delivered from all the sad consequences of sin,—and therefore is called, The redemption of our bodies; (Romans 8:23 compare Hosea 13:14.) so, in a less proper sense, the deliverance from the toilsandsorrows,temptationsandinfirmitiesofthissinfuland calamitous life, may on the like principles be called redemption: and if we may judge of the length of the apostles' lives by the extent of their labours, though we know not thetime when many of them died, there is reasonto conjecture, that it was not till about this period; which, bythe way, would be an argument, that they were now most of them young men. The expression, Look up, in this verse, admirably suits the load of labour and sufferings, under which the apostles would be depressed in this afflicted state.