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Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 17:22

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Luke17:22

22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

Our Lord spendeth his further discourse in this Chapter, in a forewarning of his Disciples of those great troubles, which should follow his departure from them. At present the Bridegroom was with them, and they could not Mourn, for many years after that he was departed from them, the days of the Son of Man continued, that is Gospel days, times wherein the Gospel of Christ was freely Preached to them. But (saith he) make use of that time, for it will not hold long, there will come a time when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and shall not see them. These evil days began, when false Christs and false Prophets rose up, which was most eminently a little before the Destruction of Ierusalem, which happened about forty years after, every Factious Person that had Reputation enough to make himself the head, and leader of a Faction, taking his advantage of the common errour of the Jews, that a Messiah, a Christ was to come, who should exercise a temporal Kingdom over the Jews, would pretend to be, and give out he was the Messiah, to draw a Faction after him. This is that which our Saviour saith in the next Words.

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