Amos 9:1-4; Deuteronomy 28:49; Jeremiah 16:16; Job 39:27-30; Luke 17:37
Wheresoever ... - The words in this verse are proverbial. Vultures and eagles easily ascertain where dead bodies are, and hasten to devour them....
(5) For wheresoever the (m) carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. (5) The only remedy against the furious rage of the world is tha...
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 clos...
carcase. Greek. ptoma. eagles . vultures. gathered together. See Job 39:30 , which shows the true interpretation.
28 Wheresoever the carcass is. The meaning is, that by whatever methods Satan endeavors to scatter the children of God in various directions...
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. For wheresoever the carcass is - Πτωμα, the dead carcass. The Jewish nati...
Wheresoever the carcase is, &c.— By the word carcase is meant the Jewish nation, which was morally and judicially dead, and whose destruction...
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 expositio...
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, an...
Great prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the end of the world ( Mark 13:8 ; Luke 21:7 ). Many of the most serious difficulties of this...
The flight of the Christians before the fall of Jerusalem. 15. The abomination of desolation ] i.e. the abomination which makes the Temple desolate,...
A parable or proverb ( Luke 17:37 ). Just as, wherever a carcase may happen to be, eagles or vultures will invariably be found; so at Christ's second...
Wheresoever the carcase is. — Two interpretations of this verse may, without much risk of error, be at once rejected: — (1) That which sees in the...
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 cl...
Beware of False Christs Matthew 24:15-28 The abomination of desolation is explained in Luke 21:20 , and probably refers to the Roman ensigns a...
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...
"Behold, I have told you before. (26) Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret ch...
For wheresoever the carcass is ,.... Not Christ, as he is held forth in the Gospel, crucified and slain, through whose death is the savour of life,...
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Ver. 28. For wheresoever the carcase is, &c. ] That is, saith M....
For as the lightning cometh out of the east , &c. The coming of the Son of man shall be in a very different manner, and for very different ends...
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...
Awful Predictions. 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man...
Ver. 27,28. Luke hath much the same, Luke 17:24,37 . The disagreement of interpreters about the coming of the Son of man, here spoken of, makes...
Words After Leaving The Temple About The Destruction Of The Temple And About His Second Coming (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares...
The Second Coming of the Messiah Is Not To Be Thought Of In Terms Of An Earthly Coming Of An Individual (24:22-28). Following the destruction of t...
“Wherever the carcase is, there will the vultures be gathered together.” Jesus then cites a proverb to finish of this section of His speech. In inte...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 24:15 . The abomination of desolation .— I.e . “the abomination that maketh desolate,” “the act of sacrilege, which is a...
Matthew 24:28 The Law of Divine Judgment. I. When a wild beast falls in the desert, or a beast of burden on the highway, there is no stir in the...
Matthew 24:1-2 . And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciple came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Je...
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...
For wherever the carcase is. The carcase and the vultures Our Lord says, wherever there is a rotting, dead society, a carcase hopelessly corrup...
EXPOSITION Matthew 24:1-40 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM , AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END . ( Mark 13:1-41...
The attack upon the faith:
For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. The Lord still has in mind principally the days preceding the destruct...
For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles he gathered together — Our Lord gives this, as a farther reason, why they should not hearken...
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.