Even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man
is
revealed.
] In his power, when he comes to avenge himself on the Jews; and
when he is revealed from heaven in flaming fire, at the last day.
As in the days of Noah and Lot, men lived in great carnality and
security, thoughtless and fearless of danger, so were the Jews
before the destruction of their city and temple, buoying
themselves up with deliverance to the last; and such will be the
times of indolence and supineness, before the coming of the day
of the Lord to judgment: and as the destruction of the old world,
and men of Sodom, and the adjacent parts, was sudden and
unexpected, so was the destruction of Jerusalem, and so will be
the burning of the world; that day will come, as a thief in the
night: and as in the above calamities, there was a remnant saved,
who were taken care of; as Noah and his family in tim ark, and as
Lot, and his wife and daughters were snatched out of Sodom, when
the rest were destroyed; so when the Christians removed from
Jerusalem, and went to Pella, being directed by a divine oracle,
then came on the siege of Jerusalem F18; and when all the elect
will be gathered in, and brought to faith and repentance, then
shall the earth, and the works in it be burnt up: and as these
judgments were universal, so was that upon the people of the
Jews: and such will be the general desolation in the last day.