John Trapp on Matthew 24:3

Verse 3. Came unto him privatly, saying] Because it was dangerous to speak publiquely of the destruction of the Temple, as the examples of Jeremy and Steven shew. Howbeit Micah the Morashite prophecied in the daies of [illegible: 1 word] saying, Zion [illegible: 1 word]. 26. 18. shall be plowed, &c. and the mountain of this house shall be as the high-places of a forrest. And God stirred up many faithfull [illegible: 1 word] to cry out against Rome in her ruffe, and to foretell her ruine. In the year 1159. lived Joannes Sarisburiensis, who reprovedIac. [illegible: 1 word]. in hist. Pont. Rom. p 145. the Pope to his face, and wrot his Polycraticon, wherein he freely taxeth all the Romish hierarchy. Bernard also told the Bishops of his time, that they were not teachers but seducers, not Pastours but Impostures, not Prelates but Pilates, &c. AndLib. 4. de Consid. a certain Painter blamed by a Cardinall for colouring the visages of Peter and Paul too red, tartly but fitly replyed that he painted them so, as blushing at the lives of their successours. The signe of thy coming] viz. To destroy the temple. And of the end of the world] Which they thought could not possibly out-last the Temple. As they were wont to say in the Primitive Church, Abs que stationibus non staret mundus: The [illegible: 1 word]. world could not stand if Gods people did not stand before him in prayer. Semen sanctum statumen terrae, as Tremellius reads, Isa. 6. 13.