The Gospel According to Matthew - nuovo libro

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: answered'and said unto them, Take heed that no man 5 lead you astray. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs 7 come to pass; but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and earthquakes in tion to Christians regarding specific teaching about these unfulfilled predictions. Ver. 5. Come in my name, as the Messiah. The Messianic hopes of the Jews were at fever-heat, as the destruction of their holy city drew near; many enthusiasts appeared as seducers of the people, and awakened false expectations. It is not known that they claimed the authority of the promised Messiah. Bar-Cochba (the 'son of the star, ' comp. Num. 24: 17), made such a claim; but he appeared before the second destruction of Jerusalem under Hadrian, A. D. 120. Christ speaks here of the general signs of the end of the world. ' Every man who pretends to assume the place of Christ is a false Christ.' Ver. 6. Of wars and rumors of wars. The primary reference is to the Jewish war which began A. D. 66, and lasted four years till the destruction of Jerusalem. During this period there were unusual commotions among the Jews in all countries, and in Rome.too. It is also a prediction of unexampled convulsions before the second coming of Christ. ' Rumors of wars' are sometimes more intimidating and unsettling to the minds of men than actual war. (See Lauge on Matthew, p. 423, note.) Ver. 7. Nation shall rise against nation, etc. Primarily, national uprisings of the Jews; then, wars of races, political revolutions, migrations, etc. Even the times preceding the dissolution of the Roman E...