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)