Mateo 23:38

38 He aquí vuestra Casa os es dejada desierta

Mateo 23:38 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 23:38

Behold your house is left unto you desolate.
] Signifying that the city in which they dwelt, where they had their ceiled houses, and stately palaces, would, in a little time, within the space of forty years, be destroyed, and become a desert; and the temple, formerly the house of God, but now only their's, and in which they trusted, would be abandoned by God, he would grant his presence no more in it; and the Messiah, the proprietor of it, and who was now in it, would then take his leave of it, and never more return to it; and that also should share the same fate as the city, and at the same time. Our Lord seems to have in view those passages in ( Jeremiah 12:7 ) ( 22:5 ) and which the Jewish ^F15 writers understood of the temple. The author of the apocryphal the second book of Esdras has much such an expression as this: ``Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind doth stubble.'' (2 Esdras 1:33)

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Targum & Kimchi in Jer. xii. 7.

Mateo 23:38 In-Context

36 De cierto os digo que todo esto vendrá sobre esta generación

37 ¡Jerusalén, Jerusalén, que matas a los profetas, y apedreas a los que son enviados a ti! ¡Cuántas veces quise juntar tus hijos, como la gallina junta sus pollos debajo de las alas, y no quisiste

38 He aquí vuestra Casa os es dejada desierta

39 Porque os digo que desde ahora no me veréis, hasta que digáis: Bendito el que viene en el nombre del Señor