Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem - It is evident that our blessed Lord seriously and earnestly wished the salvation of the Jews. read more
马太福音 23:34-39 Cunpss
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:38
Behold, your house - Ο οικος , the temple: - this is certainly what is meant. It was once the Lord's temple, God's Own house; but now he says, Your temple or house - to intimate that God had abandoned it. See the note on Matthew 23:21 ; see also on Luke 13:35 ; (note). read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:39
Ye shall not see me - I will remove my Gospel from you, and withdraw my protection. Till ye shall say, Blessed - Till after the fullness of the Gentiles is brought in, when the word of life shall again be sent unto you; then will ye rejoice, and bless, and praise him that cometh in the name of the Lord, with full and final salvation for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. See Romans 11:26 , Romans 11:27 . Our Lord plainly foresaw that, in process of time, a spiritual domination... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:34
Verse 34 34.Therefore, lo, I send to you. Luke introduces it in a still more emphatic manner, Wherefore also the Wisdom of God hath said; which some commentators explain thus: “I, who am the eternal Wisdom of God, declare this concerning you.” But I am more inclined to believe that, according to the ordinary custom of Scripture, God is here represented as speaking in the person of his Wisdom; so that the meaning is, “God foretold long ago, by the prophetic Spirit, what would happen with regard... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:35
Verse 35 35.That upon you may come. He not only takes away from them their false boasting, but shows that they had received prophets for a totally different purpose, that no age might be free from the criminality of wicked rebellion; for the pronoun you embraces generally the whole nation from its very commencement. If it be objected, that it is not consistent with the judgment of God that punishment should be inflicted on the children for the sins of the parents, the answer is easy. Since they... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:37
Verse 37 37.Jerusalem, Jerusalem. By these words, Christ shows more clearly what good reason he had for indignation, that Jerusalem, which God had chosen to be his sacred, and — as we might say — heavenly abode, not only had shown itself to be unworthy of so great an honor, but, as if it had been a den of robbers, (Jeremiah 7:11,) had been long accustomed to suck the blood of the prophets. Christ therefore utters a pathetic exclamation at a sight so monstrous, as that the holy city of God... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:38
Verse 38 38Lo, your house is left to you desolate. He threatens the destruction of the temple, and the dissolution of the whole frame of civil government. Though they were disfigured by irreligion, crimes, and every kind of infamy, yet they were so blinded by a foolish confidence in the temple, and its outward service, that they thought that God was bound to them; and this was the shield which they had always at hand: “What? Could God depart from that place which he has chosen to be his only... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:39
Verse 39 39.For I tell you. He confirms what he had said about the approaching vengeance of God, by saying that the only method of avoiding destruction will be taken from them. For that was the accepted time, the day of salvation, (Isaiah 49:8; 2 Corinthians 6:2,) so long as that very person who had come to be their Redeemer, attested and proclaimed the redemption which he had brought. But at his departure, as at the setting of the sun, the light of life vanished; and therefore this dreadful... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 23:1-39
Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her own destruction. (Peculiar to St. Matthew.) read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:36
Shall come upon this generation - Επι την γενεαν ταυτην , upon this race of men, viz. the Jews. This phrase often occurs in this sense in the evangelists. read more