Footnotes for:"Take Heed," "Pestilences and Famine," and "Earthquakes"
1 - COMMENTARY CRITICAL, EXPERIMENTAL AND PRACTICAL ON THE
OLD
AND NEW TESTAMENTS by Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, VOL. V., p. 193,
on Mark 13:1-23. "The preceding portion of this prophecy (Mark 13:1-23)
is by all interpreters applied to the destruction of Jerusalem by the
Romans.
2 - JOSEPHUS, translated by William Whiston, Kregel
Publications,
1981, Wars of the Jews, Book II, Ch. XVI-XV.
3 - Luibheid, Ibid., P. 78, II, 13:1-8.
4 - EUSEBIUS ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, Boyles, Isaac, Grand
Rapids, MI, Baker Book House, l971, p. 57, Ch VIII.
Footnotes for:"Signs From Heaven, This Gospel of the Kingdom, Habitable Earth and Eusebius."
1 - JOSEPHUS, translated by William Whiston, Kregel
Publications,
1981, Wars of the Jews, Book VI, Ch. V., para. 3. (Note---Book VI, Ch.
IV is most enlightening concerning fulfillment of prophecy of the
destruction
of Jerusalem.)
2 - A COMMENTARY CRITICAL, EXPERIMENTAL AND PRACTICAL ON THE
OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, Vol. V., Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans
Publishing
Co., p. 192, on Mark 13:9. "God never sends judgment without previous
warning;
and there can be no doubt that the Jews, already dispersed over most
known
countries, had nearly all heard the Gospel "as a witness," before the
end
of the Jewish state.
3 - MATTHEW HENRY'S COMMENTARY, Henry, Matthew, Vol. V.,
edited by Dr. Leslie F. Church, Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, 1961, Ch.
V., Sect. 1, p. 1327.
4 - CLARK'S COMMENTARY, Clarke, Adam, Abingdon, Nashville,
TN, Vol. V., p. 229, on Matthew 24:14. "In all the world. Perhaps no
more
is meant here than the Roman empire; for it is beyond controversy that
pasan ton oikoumenon, Luke ii. 1, means no more than the whole Roman
Empire:
as a decree for taxation or enrolment from Augustus Caesar could have
no
influence but in the Roman dominions;"
5 - THE ESSENTIAL EUSEBIUS, Luibheid, Colm, New York,
Mentor-Omega
Books, 1966, p. 88, para. 5, used by permission.
6 - Ibid, III, 5:1-7, p. 96.
7 - EUSEBIUS ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, Boyles, Isaac, Grand
Rapids, MI, Baker Book House, 1971, Book II, Ch. III, p. 52. States
that
the gospel was preached by the apostles throughout all the earth.
8 - THE ESSENTIAL EUSEBIUS, Luibheid, Colm, New York,
Mentor-Omega
Books, 1966, p. 96, III, 5:1-7, used by permission.
Footnotes for:"Consummation
of the age."
Footnotes for: "This
Generation."
2-Clarke, Ibid., p. 230, vs. 21. [For then shall be great tribulation] No history can furnish us with a parallel to the calamities and miseries of the Jews: Rapine, murder, famine, and pestilence within: fire and sword, and all the horrors of war, without.
3-Luibheid, Ibid., p. 102, III, 7:1-9.
4-Ibid.
5-Ibid., p. 100, 6:1-28.
Footnotes for: "Why
Such Desolation?"
2-Luibheid, Ibid., p. 88, para. 5, used by permission.
3-Ibid., p. 96, para. 4.
4-Martin Noth, HISTORY
OF ISRAEL, Harper & Brothers, NY., p. 454. "The Jews were
forbidden
to enter it {Jerusalem} on pain of death; it was inhabited by a heathen
population. The Jews were therefore excluded from their own ancient
holy
city, which had for so long formed the centre of their ancestor's
lives.
The province now probably exchanged its former name of Judaea for the
new
name of Palestine, which it bore henceforth and which derived from the
older description of the coastal area as 'the land of the Philistines."
Not even the province's name should suggest that it was still a 'land
of
the Jews." And so the descendants of the Israel of old had become
strangers
in their own former homeland just as they were in the Diaspora; and
their
holy city was prohibited to them. Thus ended the ghastly epilogue of
Israel's
history."
Footnotes for: "After
the Tribulation."
2-Luibheid, Ibid., p. 78, II, 13:1-8.
4-Clarke, Ibid., p. 229, Verse 14, para. 2, In all the world, "oikoumene." Perhaps no more is meant here than the Roman empire; for it is beyond controversy that "oikoumenen," Luke ii.1, means no more than the whole Roman empire: as a decree for taxation or enrolment from Augustus Caesar could have no influence but in the Roman dominions;
5-Collier, Ibid., p.
497.
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (A.D. 79) Letter to Cacitus from Pliny the
Younger,
giving an Account of Pliny's death.
Describing the Eruption of
Mount Vesuvius, he wrote: "I can not give you a more exact description
of its figure than by resembling it to that of a pine-tree; for it shot
up a great height in the form of a tall trunk, which spread at the top
into a sort of branches; occasioned, I suppose, either that the force
of
the internal vapors which impelled the cloud upward, decreased in
strength
as it advanced, or that the cloud, being pressed back by its own
weight,
expanded itself in the manner I have mentioned;
Footnotes for: "The
Times of the Gentiles"
Footnote for: "Son
of Man Coming in a Cloud."
