Analecta Theologica Volume 1; A Digested and Arranged Compendium of the Most Approved Commentaries on the New Testament (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...Isaiah li, 6., of Egypt, Ezek. xxxii. 7., the slaughter of the Jews, Dan. viii. 10., and this very destruction of Jerusalem in Joel ii. 30. Compare also Esther viii. 16. Jerem. xv. 9. Joel iii. 15. Amos viii. 9. The same also appears from the Talmud; and Maimonides observes More Nevoch. c. 29. p. 2.) that the sun and moon losing their light is a proverbial expression importing the destruction and utter ruin tf a nation. So also Artemidor. Oneir. II. 39. Similar notions are also observable in the classic writers. Thus of the falling or shooting of stars, as ominous of evil times, Virg. Georg. I. 365. Sarpe etiam Stellas, vento impendente, videbis Praecipites cozlo labi, noctisque per umbram Flammarum longos a tergo albescere tractus. Again, v. 462. Sol tibi signa dabit: Solem quis dicere falsum Audeat? Ills etiam cacos instare tumultus Scepe monet, &c. Compare Ovid, Met. XV. 782. Cic. Catil. III. 8. Tibull. II. 5. 71. Liv. XXII. 4. 5. Still it is more than probable that there is a remote although not a direct reference to the attendant circumstances of the day of judgment. See above on v. 1. By the powers of Heaven, Swajuac w ovpavwv, are generally meant the sun, moon, and stars, as in Dent. iv. 19. Isaiah xxxiv. 4. 2 Chron. xxxiii. 5. Jerem. xxxiii. 22. and elsewhere; and these, having been already particularized, are again mentioned generally to encrease the emphasis. Whitby, Lightfoot, Doddridge, Hammond, Kuinoel. Ver. 30. Toti (javiasrai To (tijjuetov K. T. X. Some understand the word ar(iuov to mean an ensign or banner; others interpret it pleonastically, and it is omitted by Mark and Luke; but our Lord seems rather to allude to the prophecy in Dan. vii. 13., from which the Jews had imbibed an idea that the Messiah would appear visibly in the heaven...