Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.
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...
Commenting on Luke 21:20-28
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon,.... They shall be darkened, and suffer very strange and surprising eclipses: and in the stars; they shall fall from heaven, as in Mat 24:29 and so the Ethiopic version reads here: all which, as it may be understood in a literal sense, so it may likewise in figurative and mystical one, and be...