Luke 10:15

And thou, Capernaum)Christ's "own city."

exalted to heaven by inestimable spiritual privileges. "Admitted into a holier sanctuary, they were guilty of a deeper sacrilege." A better reading is (for ἡ … ὑψωθεῖσα) is μὴ ὑψωθήσῃ; "Shalt thou be exalted to heaven? Thou shalt be thrust down...!"

shalt be thrust dawn to hell)Rather, as far as Hades. When our Lord uttered this woe these cities on the shores of Gennesareth were bright and populous and prospering; now they are desolate heaps of ruins in a miserable land. The inhabitants who lived thirty years longer may have recalled these woes in the unspeakable horrors of slaughter and conflagration which the Romans then inflicted on them.

It is immediately after the celebrated description of the loveliness of the Plain of Gennesareth that Josephus goes on to tell of the shore strewn with wrecks and putrescent bodies, "insomuch that the misery was not only an object of commiseration to the Jews, but even to those that hated them and had been the authors of that misery," Jos. B. J.III. 10, § 8. For fuller details see my Life of Christ,II. 101 sq.