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Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 24:39

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Matthew24:39

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Luke hath much the same, Ch. 17.26, 27. where he also saith, it shall be as in the days of Lot, but I shall consider what he saith, w[illegible: 1 letter]ich seemeth spo[illegible: 1 letter]en at another time, and upon another occasion; when I come to his seventeenth Chapter. Two things our Saviour see[illegible: 1 letter]eth here to teach us. 1. That Christ's coming to the last Iudgmen[illegible: 1 letter] will be sudden, and not lookt for; upon which Account his coming is compared in Scripture to the coming of a Thief, v. 43.44. 2 Pet. 3.10. Rev. 16.15. 2. That it will be in a [illegible: 1 letter]ime of great Security, and Deba[illegible: 1 letter]chery, such was the time of Noah, Gen. 6.3, 4, 5.

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