23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
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And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)Having given them an idea of the times for about thirty-eight years next ensuing, he here comes to show them what all those things would issue in at last, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utter dispersion of the Jewish nation, which would be a little day of judgment, a type and figure of Christ’s second coming, which was not so fully spoken of here as in the parallel place (Matt. 24:1…
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