Luke 21:22. Days of vengeance. Of God's vengeance, not of man's. Comp. chap. Luke 18:8. Even Titus seems to have been conscious that he was a minister of Divine retribution.

All things which are written may be fulfilled. Our Lord then asserts that this retribution bad been already prophesied in the Old Testament. ‘All things' points to more than one prediction. That of Daniel, quoted by Matthew and Mark, is certainly included, but, others also, beginning with Deuteronomy 28:15, etc., and running through the whole prophetic period.

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Old Testament