Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 13:35

35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: And verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

See the Notes on Matth. 23▪ 37, 38, 39. These five last verses afford us much for our instruction. 1. We may from them learn the craft of the Enemies of the Gospel, as well as their Malice, they are Lions, and will like Lions tear and rend, when they see an opportunity; but when they see it convenient, then they put on the fox's skin, doing the same thing by subtilty, which they durst not attempt to effect by cruelty. 2. Their Malice is as much perspicuous; who but the Children of the Devil could have found in their hearts, to have desired Christ to go out of their Country, who did nothing there, but innocently, and diligently Preach the Gospel, deliver People from grievous Diseases, and the Power of Satan, who miserably possest and tormented them? 3. When the most Malicious Enemies of Gods People have done what they can, they shall finish their course, and work the time God hath set them. 4. When they have perfected their Work, they shall be perfected. Death is but the perfecting the Saints, as it was the perfecting of Christ. 5. Men shall Dye as at the time, so at the place which God hath set. 6. God sending of his Ministers faithfully to reveal his Will to People, is a declaration of his willingness to gather them under the Wings of his special favour and protection. 7. The perverse Wills of Men, are those things which hinder Men and Women from being gathered. 8. Temporal judgments, and that of the severest Nature will first or last follow Mens contempt of the offers of Grace and Salvation. 9. Those that do contemn the means of Grace, shall not see them long.—Ye shall not see me. 10. The Proudest Scorners and Contemners of Christ and his Grace, shall one Day wish, that one would or might come unto them in the Name of the Lord, and do but now contemn what hereafter they would be glad they might enjoy.

Marginal references: Psa. 118.26.