Beginning of sorrows] RV 'of travail.' Jewish writers speak frequently of the socalled 'sorrows of the Messiah,' which are to last nine months, and to be the birthpangs of the coming age. They would be a period of internal corruption, and outward distress, famine, and war, of which Palestine was to be the scene, and Israel the chief sufferers. Some of these sorrows would fall upon the Messiah Himself (Edersheim).

9, 10. See on Matthew 10:17.

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