And when these things begin to come to pass
When the first of these signs appears, or any one of them:
then look up and lift up your heads;
be cheerful and pleasant; do not hang down your heads as
bulrushes, but erect them, and put on a cheerful countenance, and
look upwards, from whence your help comes; and look out wistfully
and intently, for your salvation and deliverance:
for your redemption draweth nigh;
not the redemption of their souls from sin, Satan, the law, the
world, death, and hell; for that was to be obtained, and was
obtained, before any of these signs took place; nor the
redemption of their bodies at the last day, in the resurrection,
called the day of redemption; for this respects something that
was to be, in the present age and generation; see ( Luke 21:32 ) but the
deliverance of the apostles and other Christians, from the
persecutions of the Jews, which were very violent, and held till
these times, and then they were freed from them: or by redemption
is meant, the Redeemer, the son of man, who shall now come in
power and glory, to destroy the Jews, and deliver his people; and
so the Ethiopic version renders it, "for he draws nigh who shall
save you".