Lukas 17:35

35 There will be shtayim (two) grinding at the same place: one will be taken, but the other will be left.

Lukas 17:35 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 17:35

Two [women] shall be grinding together
In ( Matthew 24:41 ) it is added, "in the mill"; in the house where the mill was, and at one and the same mill; and so the Ethiopic version here, "two shall grind in one mill": and it was common for two women to grind at one hand mill; and though the word "women" is not in the text, it is rightly put into the translation; since the word used is of the feminine gender, and since grinding was the business of women; and so the Persic version here supplies it, as we do; (See Gill on Matthew 24:42).

The one shall be taken and the other left;
the Roman soldiers entering the mill, will lay hold on the one, and carry her away with them, and leave the other; and for which no other reason can be given, but the sovereign will and providence of God, which should overrule and dispose the minds of these men, to act in such a manner.

Lukas 17:35 In-Context

33 Whoever seeks to preserve his nefesh will lose it; but whoever loses it, will preserve it.

34 I say to you, in lailah hazeh there will be two in one bed: one will be taken; and the other will be left.

35 There will be shtayim (two) grinding at the same place: one will be taken, but the other will be left.

36 Shtayim will be in the sadeh (field); one will be taken and the other left.

37 And in reply they say to him, Where, Adoneinu? But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Where the NEVELAH (DEVARIM 21:23) is, there also the nesharim (vultures, eagles [popularly]) will be gathered together.