Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 24:22

22 And except those days should be shortned, there should no flesh be saved, but for the elects sake, those days shall be shortned.

Mark hath the same in effect, Ch. 13. v. 19, 20. Luke Ch. 21.23, 24. speaks more particularly. For there shall be great distress in the Land, and wrath upon this People. And they shall fall by the Edge of the Sword, and shall be led away Captive into all Nations; and Ierusalem shall be [illegible: 1 letter]roden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. These Verses must be understood with reference to the Iewish Nation, and whoso shall read in Iosephus, the History of the Wars of the Iews, will easily agree, there is nothing in all the foregoing Iewish story, which we have recorded in Scripture like unto it, the final Destruction of them by Titus, was rather an abatement of Miseries, they suffered by the Factions within themselves than any thing else. And thus some think, that God shortned those days of their Misery, by sending the Roman Armies to quiet the Seditions, and Factions amongst themselves, which were more cruel one to another; God promiseth to shorten these days for the Elect sake, that were amongst this sinful People. So that as the City was taken in less than six Months, so was their whole Country, in less than eighteen Months more: And if the Lord had not in Compassion to those amongst this People, who belonged to his Election of Grace, shortned these days of Calamity, both by sending the Roman Armies, to quiet their intestine Divisions, and then giving these Armies so quick a Victory, none of the Iews would have been le[illegible: 1 letter]t alive, which indeed any one will judge, that shall but read those Histories.