42Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, …
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, …
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-48)The great Ambassador from heaven is here making his public entry into Jerusalem, not to be respected there, but to be rejected ; he knew what a nest of vipers he was throwing himself into, and yet see here two instances of his love to that place and his concern for it. I. The tears he shed for the approaching ruin of the city (Luke 19:41): When he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over i…
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