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LUKE 19:44 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 19:43Luke 19:45
“And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.”
They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's visitation — because you did not recognize the time of God's visitation (ton kairon tēs episkopēs sou, the season of your visitation): the episkopē is the divine visit — the same word as in the Benedictus (1:68) and the widow of Nain response (7:16). The failure to recognize the divine visitation is the cause of the judgment.

Church Fathers on Luke 19:44

All the blessings which Jesus pronounced in His Gospel He confirms by His own example, as having declared, Blessed are the meek; He afterwards sanctions it by saying, Learn of me, for I am meek; and because He had said, Blessed are they that weep, He Himself also wept over the city.

Origen · 3rd century

For Christ had compassion upon the Jews, who wills that all men should be saved. Which had not been plain to us, were it not revealed by a certain mark of His humanity. For tears poured forth are the tokens of sorrow.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

The merciful Redeemer wept then over the fall of the false city, which that city itself knew not was about to come upon it. As it is added, saying, If you had known, even you (we may here understand) would weep. You who now rejoice, for you know not what is at hand. It follows, at least in this your day. For when she gave herself up to carnal pleasures, she had the things which in her day might be her peace. But why she had present goods for her peace, is explained by what…

Gregory the Great · 6th century
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