Luke 21:22 — Community Reflections

LUKE 21:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.”

For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written — the time of punishment (hēmerai ekdikēseōs, days of vengeance, days of retribution): the judgment of Jerusalem as the fulfillment of the prophetic warning about the consequences of rejecting the divine messengers. In fulfillment of all that has been written communicates the scriptural necessity of the coming judgment.

Church Fathers on Luke 21:22

Hitherto our Lord had been speaking of those things which were to come to pass for forty years, the end not yet coming. He now describes the very end itself of the desolation, which was accomplished by the Roman army; as it is said, And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed, &c.
Bede · 8th century

By the desolation of Jerusalem, He means that it was never again to be set up, or its legal rites to be reestablished, so that no one should expect, after the coming siege and desolation, any restoration to take place, as there was in the time of the Persian king, Antiochus the Great, and Pompey.
Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century

These words of our Lord, Luke has here related to show, that the abomination of desolation which was prophesied by Daniel, and of which Matthew and Mark had spoken, was fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem.
Augustine · 4th century

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