31In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not,(let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: …
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: …
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-37)We have here a discourse of Christ’s concerning the kingdom of God , that is, the kingdom of the Messiah, which was now shortly to be set up , and of which there was great expectation. I. Here is the demand of the Pharisees concerning it, which occasioned this discourse. They asked when the kingdom of God should come , forming a notion of it as a temporal kingdom , which should advance the Jewish…
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