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LUKE 21:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 21:23Luke 21:25
“And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled — fall by the sword, taken as prisoners: the historical experience of 70 CE. Jerusalem trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled: the period of Gentile domination of Jerusalem as the transitional era before the final restoration.

Church Fathers on Luke 21:24

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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