Verse 1Mt 24:1; Lu 21:5. Verse 4Two questions are here asked; the one concerning the destruction of Jerusalem: the other concerning the end of the world. Verse 9Lu 21:12. Verse 10Mt 24:14. Verse 11The Holy Ghost will help you. But do not depend upon any other help For all the nearest ties will be broken. Verse 14Where it ought not - That place being set apart for sacred use. Mt 24:15; Lu 21:20; Dan 9:27. Verse 19In those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation - May it not be doubted, whether this be yet fully accomplished? Is not much of this affliction still to come? Verse 20The elect - The Christians: whom he hath chosen - That is, hath taken out of, or separated from, the world, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. He hath shortened - That is, will surely shorten. Verse 21Mt 24:23. Verse 24But in those days - Which immediately precede the end of the world: after that tribulation - Above described. Verse 28Mt 24:32; Lu 21:28. Verse 29He is nigh - The Son of man. Verse 30All these things - Relating to the temple and the city. Verse 32Of that day - The day of judgment is often in the Scriptures emphatically called that day. Neither the Son - Not as man: as man he was no more omniscient than omnipresent. But as God he knows all the circumstances of it. Verse 33Mt 24:42; Lu 21:34. Verse 34The Son of man is as a man taking a far journey - Being about to leave this world and go to the Father, he appoints the services that are to be performed by all his servants, in their several stations. This seems chiefly to respect ministers at the day of judgment: but it may be applied to all men, and to the time of death. Mt 25:14; Lu 19:12.