Lukas 21:24

24 En zij zullen vallen door de scherpte des zwaards, en gevankelijk weggevoerd worden onder alle volken; en Jeruzalem zal van de heidenen vertreden worden, totdat de tijden der heidenen vervuld zullen zijn.

Lukas 21:24 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 21:24

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword
Or "mouth of the sword", an Hebraism; see the Septuagint in ( Judges 1:8 Judges 1:25 ) . The number of those that perished by the famine and sword, were eleven hundred thousand ^F6:

and shall be led away captive unto all nations;
when the city was taken, the most beautiful of the young men were kept for the triumph; and those that were above seventeen years of age, were sent bound into Egypt, to labour in the mines; many were distributed through the provinces, to be destroyed in the theatres, by the sword or beasts; and those that were under seventeen years of age, were led captive to be sold; and the number of these only, were ninety-seven thousand ^F7:

and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles;
the Romans, who ploughed up the city and temple, and laid them level with the ground; and which spot has been ever since inhabited by such as were not Jews, as Turks and Papists: and so it will be,

until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled;
that is, till the fulness of the Gentiles is brought in; until the Gospel is preached all over the world, and all God's elect are gathered in out of all nations; and then the Jews will be converted, and return to their own land, and rebuild and inhabit Jerusalem; but till that time, it will be as it has been, and still is possessed by Gentiles. The word "Gentiles", is left out in one of Beza's exemplars, and so it is likewise in the Persic version.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Joseph. de Belio Jud. l. 7. c. 49. & Euseb. Hist. Eccl. l. 3. c. 7.
F7 Ib.

Lukas 21:24 In-Context

22 Want deze zijn dagen der wraak, opdat alles vervuld worde, dat geschreven is.

23 Doch wee den bevruchten en den zogenden vrouwen in die dagen, want er zal grote nood zijn in het land, en toorn over dit volk.

24 En zij zullen vallen door de scherpte des zwaards, en gevankelijk weggevoerd worden onder alle volken; en Jeruzalem zal van de heidenen vertreden worden, totdat de tijden der heidenen vervuld zullen zijn.

25 En er zullen tekenen zijn in de zon, en maan, en sterren, en op de aarde benauwdheid der volken met twijfelmoedigheid, als de zee en watergolven groot geluid zullen geven;

26 En den mensen het hart zal bezwijken van vrees en verwachting der dingen, die het aardrijk zullen overkomen; want de krachten der hemelen zullen bewogen worden.