Luke 21:35

as a snare Ecclesiastes 9:12 "as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time." There is the same metaphor in Isaiah 24:17. The common metaphor is "as a thief" 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Revelation 3:3; Revelation 16:15; but St Paul uses this metaphor also, Rom 11:9; 1 Timothy 3:7.

them that dwell Literally, "them that sit."A Hebraism (Genesis 19:30, &c.), but perhaps with the collateral notion of -sitting at ease," Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 25:29 (LXX.). -Face of the earth" is also a Hebraism, 2 Samuel 18:8.