* the days.
Our Lord here refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the
final desolation of the Jewish state; an evil associated with
so many miseries, that sterility, which had otherwise been
considered an opprobrium, was accounted a circumstance most
felicitous. No history can furnish us with a parallel to the
calamities and miseries of the Jews; rapine and murder, famine
and pestilence, within; fire and sword, and all the terrors of
war, without. Our Saviour himself wept at the foresight of
these calamities; and it is almost impossible for persons of
any humanity to read the relation of them in Josephus without
weeping also. He might justly affirm, "if the misfortunes of
all, from the beginning of the world, were compared with those
of the Jews, they would appear much inferior in the
comparison."
21:23,24 Mt 24:19 Mr 13:17-19
* Blessed.
De 28:53-57 Ho 9:12-16 13:16
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