Luke 21:30 — Community Reflections

LUKE 21:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.”

When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near — when they sprout leaves: the seasonal reading. You can see for yourselves and know: the observable sign that produces the confident knowledge. Summer is near: the predictable sequence communicates that the signs of the Son of Man's coming are as readable as the seasons.

Church Fathers on Luke 21:30

Having in what has gone before spoken against the reprobate, He now turns His words to the consolation of the elect; for it is added, When these things begin to be, look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws nigh; as if he says, When the buffetings of the world multiply, lift up your heads, that is, rejoice your hearts, for when the world closes whose friends you are not, the redemption is near which you seek. For in holy Scripture the head is often put for…
Gregory the Great · 6th century

Or else, To those that have passed through the body and bodily things, shall be present spiritual and heavenly bodies: that is, they will have no more to pass the kingdom of the world, and then to those that are worthy shall be given the promises of salvation. For having received the promises of God which we look for, we who before were crooked shall be made upright, and we shall lift up our heads who were before bent low; because the redemption which we hoped for is at hand;…
Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century

That is, perfect liberty of body and soul. For as the first coming of our Lord was for the restoration of our souls, so will the second be manifested to the restoration of our bodies.
Theophylact · 11th century

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