Matthew 24:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

As the lightning—shall also the coming of the Son of man be— His coming will not be in this or that particular place, but, like the lightning, sudden and universal. The appearance of the true Christ will be as distinguishable fromthat of the false Christ, as lightning, which shineth all round the hemisphere, is from a blaze of straw: it is very remarkable, "That the Roman army entered into Judea on the east side of it, and carried on their conquests westward; as if not only the extensiveness of the ruin, but the very route which the army should take, was intended in the comparison of the lightning coming out of the east and shining even unto the west." See Pearce's Dissert. on the Destruction of Jerusalem, and Bishop Newton.