Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 13:10

10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.

I am prone to think that our Lord gives this not only as a Sign of the Destruction of Ierusalem, but of the end of the World, and the latter principally, for before the Destruction of Ierusalem, (which was in less then forty years after Christs Death) the Gospel was not Preached to a[illegible: 1 letter]l Nations, otherwise then as All signifies very many. And I do think that all places shall have the Gospel Preached to them, before the Day of Judgment, after another manner then either it was possible, it should be Preached to them within forty years, after the Death of Christ, or then many places have had it Preached amongst them to this Day. For tho the Holy Scriptures, and Ecclesiastical Historians, give us a something large account of the Gospel being Preached in Europe, Asia, and in Africa, yet we have little account from any of them, of its being Preache[illegible: 1 letter] in America. I am not wholly ignorant of what those writers tell us, of Thomas the Apostle his Preaching to the Indians and of Trumentius and his Colleague, but they are very few Preachers that any stories give an account of, gone to the Indians, whither I believe the Gospel must go before that Christ comes to Judgment.

Marginal references: Matth. 24.14▪