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Sleebo Feast
From Wesley's Notes on Luke 21 by John Wesley (1703-1791)
5. Goodly stones - Such as no engines now in use could have brought, or even set
upon each other. Some of them (as an eye witness who lately measured them
writes) were forty - five cubits long, five high, and six broad; yet brought
thither from another country. And gifts - Which persons delivered from imminent
dangers had, in accomplishment of their vows, hung on the walls and pillars. The
marble of the temple was so white, that it appeared like a mountain of snow at a
distance. And the gilding of many parts made it, especially when the sun shone,
a most splendid and beautiful spectacle. Matt. xxiv, 1; Mark xiii, 1.
8. I am the Christ; and the time is near - When I will deliver you from all your
enemies. They are the words of the seducers.
9. Commotions - Intestine broils; civil wars.
11. Fearful sights and signs from heaven - Of which Josephus gives a
circumstantial account.
12. Mark xiii, 9.
13. It shall turn to you for a testimony - Of your having delivered your own
souls, and of their being without excuse.
16. Matt. x, 21.
17. Matt. xxiv, 13; Mark xiii, 13.
18. Not a hair of your head - A proverbial expression, shall perish - Without
the special providence of God. And then, not before the time, nor without A full
reward.
19. In your patience possess ye your souls - Be calm and serene, masters of
yourselves, and superior to all irrational and disquieting passions. By keeping
the government of your spirits, you will both avoid much misery, and guard the
better against all dangers.
21. Let them that are in the midst of it - Where Jerusalem stands (that is, they
that are in Jerusalem) depart out of it, before their retreat is cut off by the
uniting of the forces near the city, and let not them that are in the adjacent
countries by any means enter into it.
22. And things which are written - Particularly in Daniel.
24. They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive -
Eleven hundred thousand perished in the siege of Jerusalem, and above ninety
thousand were sold for slaves. So terribly was this prophecy fulfilled! And
Jerusalem shall be trodden by the Gentiles - That is, inhabited. So it was
indeed. The land was sold, and no Jew suffered even to come within sight of
Jerusalem. The very foundations of the city were ploughed up, and a heathen
temple built where the temple of God had stood. The times of the Gentiles - That
is, the times limited for their treading the city; which shall terminate in the
full conversion of the Gentiles.
25. And there shall be - Before the great day, which was typified by the
destruction of Jerusalem: signs - Different from those mentioned in ver. 11.
Matt. xxiv, 29; Mark xiii, 24.
28. Now when these things - Mentioned ver. 8, 10, &c., begin to come to pass,
look up with firm faith, and lift up your heads with joy: for your redemption
out of many troubles draweth nigh, by God's destroying your implacable enemies.
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