Matthew 22:7. He sent his armies. The Roman armies which destroyed Jerusalem were the unconscious instruments of God's (the king's) wrath. Comp. Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 13:5; Jeremiah 25:9; Joel 2:25.

Destroyed these murderers. Both the indifferent and hostile, alike guilty.

Burned their city. Jerusalem is meant, no longer His, but ‘their city.' The destruction precedes the invitation to the Gentiles (Matthew 22:8-10). The final rejection of the Jews and the substitution of the Gentiles took place at the destruction of Jerusalem, although the gospel had been proclaimed to the Gentiles for forty years before.

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