Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Let him which is on the house top - The houses of the Jews, as well as those of the ancient Greeks and Romans, were flat-roofed, and had stairs on the outside, by which persons might ascend and descend without coming into the house. In the eastern walled cities, these flat-roofed houses usually formed continued terraces from one end of the city to the other; which terraces terminated at the gates. He, therefore, who is walking on the house top, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house; but let him instantly pursue his course along the tops of the houses, and escape out at the city gate as fast as he can.
Any thing - Instead of , any thing, we should read , the things; which reading is supported by all the best MSS., versions, and fathers.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 24:17:
Mark 2:4
Mark 13:15
Luke 5:19
Luke 17:31
Luke 21:8
Luke 23:31
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