give sucke in those dayes. For there shal be great affliction upon the land, and wrath on this people. 24And they shal fal by the edge of the sword; and shal be led captive into al Nations: and Hierusalem shal be troden of the Gentiles, til the times of Nations be fulfilled.
25 Eze. 32, 7. Joel. 3, 15.* And there shal be signes in the sunne and the moone and the starres: and upon earth distresse of Nations, for the confusion of the sound of sea and waves, 26men withering for feare and expectation, what shal come upon the whole world. For the powers of Heaven shal be moved: 27and then they shal see the Sonne of man comming in a cloude with great power and majestie. 28But when these things begin to come to passe, looke up and lift up your heades: because your redemption is at hand. 29And he spake to them a similitude. See the figtree and al trees: 30when they now budde forth fruit out of themselves, you know that summer is nigh. 31So you also when you shal see these things come to passe, know that the Kingdom of God is nigh. 32Amen I say to you, that this Generation shal not passe, til al be done. 33Heaven and earth shal passe; but my wordes shal not passe.✠
34And looke wel to yourselves, lest perhaps your hartes be overcharged with surfetting and drunkennesse and cares of this life: and that day come upon you sodenly. 35For as a snare shal it come upon al that sit upon the face of al the earth. 36Watch therfore, praying at al times, that you may be ινα καταξιωθητε
See Annot. c. 20, 35.* accounted worthie to escape al these things that are to come, and to stand before the Sonne of man.
37And the dayes he was teaching in the Temple: but the nightes going forth, he abode in the [1] mount that is called Olivet. 38And al the people in the morning went unto him in the Temple to heare him.
ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. XXI.
4. Of her penurie.) To offer or give almes of our superfluities, is not so acceptable nor meritorious, as to bestow some of that which is of our necessarie provision and which we may hardly spare from ourselves: for, that proceedeth of greater zeale, wil, and intention, which be more respected of God then the substance of the guift.
- ↑ Solitarinesse or eremitage (as S. Gregorie Nazian. saith) is a goodly thing: this doth the mount Carmel of Elias teach, Johns desert, and that mount unto which JESUS often retired, and was quietly alone with himself. Ser. 26. de amore pauperum.
