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Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!`"
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A House Left Desolate
Commentators explain that Jesus' statement, "your house is left unto you desolate," was a direct prophecy of judgment against Jerusalem and its temple. Scholars like John Gill and the Expositor's Bible Commentary note this was the consequence of the city's rejection of God's messengers and, ultimately, the Messiah Himself.
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Luke
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From the message which Jesus sent to Herod we may learn:
19th Century
Anglican
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets.—See Notes on Matthew 23:37-39. Here, as in other like cases, we have …
Baptist
There will be no true glory for Jerusalem until the Jews are converted; there will be no return of Christ to that royal city until they welcome him…
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Luke draws the reader’s attention to Jerusalem, that city of destiny, both as the place of our Lord’s passion and as the pathetic, unwilling object…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate That is, would be in a little time, both city and temple; (See Gill…
Christ, in calling Herod a fox, gave him his true character. The greatest of men were accountable to God; therefore, it was fitting for Him to call…
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