Luke 21:24

fall by the edge of the sword Literally, "mouth of the sword." Genesis 34:26; Genesis 34:1,100, Genesis 34 Jews are said to have perished in the war and siege. "It seems as though the whole race had appointed a rendezvous for extermination." Renan.

led away captive into all nations Josephus speaks of 97,000 Jev]s sent to various provinces and to the Egyptian mines. B. J.vi. 9.

shall be trodden dawn of the Gentiles So that the very thing happened which the Maccabees had tried to avert by their fortifications (1Ma 4:60). All sorts of Gentiles Romans, Saracens, Persians, Franks, Norsemen, Turks have -trodden down" Jerusalem since then. The estai patounmeneof the original implies a more permanent result than the simple future. Comp. Revelation 11:2 .

until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled By the times -seasons" or -opportunities" of the Gentiles is meant the period allotted for their full evangelisation. Romans 11:25, "Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentilesbe come in."