Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Tell us, when shall these things be? - There appear to be three questions asked here by the disciples.
1st. When shall these things be? viz. the destruction of the city, temple, and Jewish state.
2dly. What shall be the sign of thy coming? viz. to execute these judgments upon them, and to establish thy own Church: and
3dly. When shall this world end? When wilt thou come to judge the quick and the dead?
But there are some who maintain that these are but three parts of the same question, and that our Lord' s answers only refer to the destruction of the Jewish state, and that nothing is spoken here concerning the Last or judgment day.
End of the world - ; or, of the age, viz. the Jewish economy, which is a frequent accommodated meaning of the word , the proper meaning of which is, as Aristotle (De Caelo) observes, Eternal. , quasi continual being: and no words can more forcibly point out eternity than these. See the note on Genesis 21:33.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 24:3:
Matthew 28:20
Luke 12:30
Luke 21:8
Luke 23:31
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