But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
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Gill's Exposition
But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions,.... Or seditions and tumults; "wars" may design the wars of the Romans, against the Jews; and the "commotions", or seditions, the internal troubles among…
The account of the destruction of Jerusalem contained in this chapter has been fully considered in the notes at Matt. 24. All that will be necessary here will be an explanation of a few words that did…
Adam Clarke
Commotions - Seditions and civil dissensions, with which no people were more agitated than the Jews.
See here, I. With what admiration some spoke of the external pomp and magnificence of the temple, and they were some of Christ's own disciples too; and they took notice of it to him how it was adorned…
Cambridge Bible
wars and commotions The best comment on the primaryfulfilment of this Discourse is the Jewish Warof Josephus, and the Annals and History of Tacitus (Ann.xii. 38, xv. 22, xvi. 13), whose narrative is…
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