Verse Matthew 24:28. _FOR WHERESOEVER THE CARCASS IS_] πτωμα, _the dead_ _carcass_. The Jewish nation, which was morally and judicially dead. _THERE WILL THE EAGLES_] The Roman armies, called so par...
WHERESOEVER ... - The words in this verse are proverbial. Vultures and eagles easily ascertain where dead bodies are, and hasten to devour them. So with the Roman army. Jerusalem is like a dead and pu...
12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...
MATTHEW 24 F. THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE, AND THE PARABLES OF PAROUSIA (Mark 13*, Luke 21:5 *, Luke 17:23). Mt. follows Mk. fairly closely, but appends other eschatological sayings and illustrative...
THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...
1: When Jesus had left the precincts of the Temple, he was going away; and his disciples came to him to point out to him the 2: buildings of the Temple area. He said to them, "Do you not see all these...
CARCASE. Greek. _ptoma._ EAGLES. vultures. GATHERED TOGETHER. See Job 39:30, which shows the true interpretation....
The Second Coming of Christ Mark 13:21-27; Luke 21:24-28 The following scheme, intended to shew a parallelism between the two Predictions, is borrowed from an interesting monograph by the Rev. W. Sh...
_wheresoever the carcase is_ The spiritual perception will discern when the Lord comes and where, by a subtle sense like that by which the vulture is cognisant of his distant prey. Another interpreta...
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST Mark 13:21-27; Luke 21:24-28...
ὍΠΟΥ ἘᾺΝ ἮΙ ΤῸ ΠΤΩ͂ΜΑ. The spiritual perception will discern wherever the Lord comes, by a subtle sense like that by which the vulture is cognisant of his distant prey. Another interpretation fixes u...
Ver 23. "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch...
_SIGN CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 24:15-33:_ Jesus gave a real sign for the Jews to look for as the destruction of Jerusalem approached. The real sign Jesus gave was the fulfillmen...
ΌΠΟΥ ΈΆΝ (G3699; G1437) с _conj._ где бы ни. ΠΤΏΜΑ (G4430) труп, падшее тело, ΣΥΝΑΧΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΝ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΣΥΝΆΓΩ (G4863) собираться. ΆΕΤΟΊ (G105) _пот. pl._ орел, стервятник (BAGD;...
WHERESOEVER THE CARCASE IS, &C.— By the word _carcase_ is meant the Jewish nation, which was morally and judicially dead, and whose destruction was pronounced in the decrees of heaven. Our Saviour, af...
B. SPECIFIC, TRUE INFORMATION ABOUT JERUSALEM'S DESTRUCTION (24:14-28) TEXT: 24:14-28 (Parallels: Mark 13:14-20; Luke 21:20-24) 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world...
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...
1-14 Compare Mar_13:1-13; Luk_21:5-19. 1 The sanctuary was doomed, for it was no longer even a nominal shrine after He had left its courts. It was almost unbelievable that such buildings, with such en...
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...
The flight of the Christians before the fall of Jerusalem. 15. The abomination of desolation] i.e. the abomination which makes the Temple desolate, by causing God to forsake it (Daniel 9:27). Some def...
A parable or proverb (Luke 17:37). Just as, wherever a carcase may happen to be, eagles or vultures will invariably be found; so at Christ's second coming, wherever a man dead in trespasses and sins i...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came u...
WHERESOEVER THE CARCASE IS. — Two interpretations of this verse may, without much risk of error, be at once rejected: — (1) That which sees in the “eagles” the well-known symbols of the strength of th...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
_False Christs again_ (Mark 13:21-23; Luke 17:23-24; Luke 17:37)....
πτῶμα, carcase, as in Matthew 14:12, _q.v._ ἀετοί, eagles, doubtless the carrion vultures are meant. The reference of this proverbial saying, as old as the book of Job (Job 39:30), in this place is no...
BEWARE OF FALSE CHRISTS Matthew 24:15-28 The abomination of desolation is explained in Luke 21:20, and probably refers to the Roman ensigns as the symbols of pagan and therefore unclean power. So urg...
Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...
(5) For wheresoever the (m) carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. (5) The only remedy against the furious rage of the world is that of being gathered and joined to Christ. (m) Chri...
Wheresoever the body, [3] &c. This seems to have been a proverb or common saying among the Jews. Several of the ancient interpreters, by this body, understand Christ himself, who died for us; and they...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
"Behold, I have told you before. (26) Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. (27) For as the lightning c...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
28_Wheresoever the carcass is. _The meaning is, that by whatever methods Satan endeavors to scatter the children of God in various directions, still in Christ himself is the sacred bond of union, by w...
We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...
FOR WHERESOEVER THE CARCASS IS,.... Not Christ, as he is held forth in the Gospel, crucified and slain, through whose death is the savour of life, and by whom salvation is, and to whom sensible sinner...
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Ver. 28. _For wheresoever the carcase is, &c._] That is, saith M. Lambert, martyr, wheresoever is declared by the course of...
_For as the lightning cometh out of the east_, &c. The coming of the Son of man shall be in a very different manner, and for very different ends from what you are imagining. It shall be like lightning...
WHERESOEVER THE CARCASS IS, THERE WILL THE EAGLES BE; wherever the Jews are, the Romans will be upon them, as eagles are upon their prey; the eagle being the ordinary standard of the Roman armies....
FOR WHERESOEVER THE CARCASS IS, THERE WILL THE EAGLES BE GATHERED TOGETHER. The Lord still has in mind principally the days preceding the destruction of Jerusalem, though His words may be said to find...
The attack upon the faith:...
He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...
4-28 The disciples had asked concerning the times, When these things should be? Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, What shall be the sign? This question he answers fully. Th...
Ver. 27,28. Luke hath much the same, LUKE 17:24,37. The disagreement of interpreters about _the coming of the Son of man, _ here spoken of, makes a variety in their interpretation of these verses. Som...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Inasmuch as then, "wheresoever the carcase is, there shall also the eagles be gathered together,"[167]...
Matthew 24:28 For G1063 wherever G1437 G3699 carcass G4430 is G5600 (G5753) there G1563 eagles G105 together...
“Wherever the carcase is, there will the vultures be gathered together.” Jesus then cites a proverb to finish of this section of His speech. In interpreting it we should, however, keep in mind Luke 17...
THE SECOND COMING OF THE MESSIAH IS NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF IN TERMS OF AN EARTHLY COMING OF AN INDIVIDUAL (24:22-28). Following the destruction of the Temple and the continuation of the Jewish people in...
WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...
Matthew 24:28. WHERESOEVER THE CARCASS IS, THERE WILL THE EAGLES BE GATHERED TOGETHER. In Luke 17:37, this figure is the answer to the question of the disciples : ‘Where Lord?' referring to the times...
CARCASE (πτωμα). As in Matthew 14:12, the corpse. Originally a fallen body from πιπτω, to fall, like Latin _cadaver_ from _cado_, to fall. The proverb here as in Luke 17:37, is like that in Job 39:3...
Matthew 24:28 The Law of Divine Judgment. I. When a wild beast falls in the desert, or a beast of burden on the highway, there is no stir in the heavens for a time. But, far above human ken, the vult...
Matthew 24:1. _And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciple came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily...
CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...
Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...
WHEREVER THERE IS A DEAD BODY. The vultures will gather at Jerusalem where the dead body is lying. Symbolic of the Roman armies gathering to destroy the body that is already dead (the Jewish Nation of...
_For wherever the carcase is._ THE CARCASE AND THE VULTURES Our Lord says, wherever there is a rotting, dead society, a carcase hopelessly corrupt and evil, down upon it, as if drawn by some unerrin...
JESUS TELLS ABOUT THE FUTURE MATTHEW 24:1-28; MARK 13:1-23; LUKE 21:5-24; MATTHEW 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple
1-51 CHAPTER 24 _And Jesus went out_, &c., according to His custom at eventide, to the Mount of Olives, to pass the night, and partake of food at Bethany, in the house of Martha and Mary, after He h...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 24:15. THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION.—_I.e_. “the abomination that maketh desolate,” “the act of sacrilege, which is a sign and a cause of desolation.” What special act of sa...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. ...
Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...
Amos 9:1; Deuteronomy 28:49; Jeremiah 16:16; Job 39:27; Luke 17:37
Carcase [π τ ω μ α]. From piptw, to fall. Originally a fall, and thence a fallen body; a corpse. Compare Lat. cadaver, from cado, to fall. See Mark 6:29; Revelation 11:8. On the saying itself, compare...
For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles he gathered together — Our Lord gives this, as a farther reason, why they should not hearken to any pretended deliverer. As if he had said, Expect...
If the coming of Christ be understood in the former verse of his coming to destroy Jerusalem, then by the CARCASS in this verse are to be understood the people of Jerusalem, and the body of the Jewish...