Then shall they begin to say
The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, "then shall ye
begin to say"; the tribulation being so great, as never was the
like since the creation of the world, nor never will be to the
end of it; and being so sore pressed with the sword and famine;
with the enemy without, and divisions, robberies, and murders
within; and their miseries being inexpressible, and intolerable,
they will seek to go into the holes of the rocks, and caves of
the earth, as is prophesied of them, ( Isaiah 2:19 ) and as
Josephus says, many of them did, when the city was taken; and,
like those in ( Hosea 10:8 ) will say,
"to the mountains fall on us, and to the hills cover us"; will
choose rather that the mountains and hills round about Jerusalem,
should fall upon them, and they be buried under the ruins of
them, than live in such terrible distress, or fall into the hands
of their enemies! Compare with this ( Revelation
6:15 Revelation
6:16 ) .