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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And except that the Lord had shortened those days,.... Had determined that those days of affliction should be but few, and not last long; that the siege should not be longer continued, and the…
The Jews, in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the Christians, were hastening to their own ruin apace, both efficiently and meritoriously, were setting both God and man against them;…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
be not in the winter with its rains and storms and swollen torrents, "neither," as St Matthew adds (Mat 24:20), "on the Sabbath day." We may well believe that the Christians made both these petitions…