MATTHEW 23:39 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. The departure and the future return: you will not see me again until you say blessed is he who comes — the Psalm 118:26 Hosanna that the crowd shouted at the triumphal entry. The until communicates the eschatological hope: the seeing will come again, when the generation that rejected him welcomes him as the crowd of the triumphal entry did. Romans 11:25–26 holds the same hope: Israel's partial hardening will end when the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Church Fathers on Matthew 23:39
The Lord next turns to address the city, desiring to instruct His bearers thereby. 'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem:' this repetition of the name is a mark of compassion and intense love.
By 'Jerusalem' He means not the stones and buildings, but the dwellers there, over whom He laments with the feeling of a Father.
Foreseeing the destruction of the city, and the blow it would receive from the Romans, He called to mind the blood of the saints which had been, and should yet be, shed in it. Thou killedst Esaias who was sent unto thee, and stonedst my servant Jeremias; thou dashedst out the brains of Ezechiel by dragging him over stones; how shalt thou be saved, which wilt not suffer a physician to come nigh thee?
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