Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 24:5

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Mark hath the same, Ch. 13.6. Luke Ch. 21.8. saith, Many shall come in my Name, saying, I am Christ, and the time draweth near, go ye not after them. Our Saviour seemeth to have given this as a Sign common both to the Destruction of Ierusalem, and the end of the World, tho possibly before the Destruction of Ierusalem, while the Iews were in Expectation of a Messiah, as a Temporal Prince or Deliverer, there were more of them than afterward, for every one who could get a party together to colour his Sedition and Rebellion, gave out himself to be the Christ. Of this Number are said to have been Theudas, and Iudas of Galilee mentioned by Gamaliel, Acts 5.36, 37. Amongst these some also reckon the Egyptian mentioned, Acts 21.38. and Simon Magus, who gave out himself to be some great one, and the People accounted him the great power of God. Such there have been, and probably may be more toward the end of the World, many were deceived by the Impostors, Christ warneth his Disciples concerning them.

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