1 Machabæorum 24:27

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Sicut enim fulgur exit ab oriente, et paret usque in occidentem: ita erit et adventus Filii hominis.

Parallel Translations

Nova Vulgata (1979)
sicut enim fulgur exit ab oriente et paret usque in occidentem, ita erit adventus Filii hominis.

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Sicut enim fulgur exit ab oriente, et paret usque in occidentem : ita erit et adventus Filii hominis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as: Job 37:3, Job 38:35, Isaiah 30:30, Zechariah 9:14, Luke 17:24-37

the coming: Matthew 16:28, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 4:5, James 5:8, 2 Peter 3:4

Reciprocal: Job 38:24 - General Lamentations 4:19 - persecutors Ezekiel 1:14 - General Zechariah 14:5 - the Lord Malachi 4:6 - lest Matthew 10:23 - till Luke 17:30 - General John 21:22 - If James 5:7 - unto 2 Peter 1:16 - coming

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For as the lightning cometh out of the east,.... The eastern part of the horizon,

and shineth even unto the west; to the western part of it, with great clearness; in a moment; in the twinkling of an eye, filling the whole intermediate space;

so shall also the coming of the son of man be; which must be understood not of his last coming to judgment, though that will be sudden, visible, and universal; he will at once come to, and be seen by all, in the clouds of heaven, and not in deserts and secret chambers: nor of his spiritual coming in the more sudden, and clear, and powerful preaching of the Gospel all over the Gentile world; for this was to be done before the destruction of Jerusalem: but of his coming in his wrath and vengeance to destroy that people, their nation, city, and temple: so that after this to look for the Messiah in a desert, or secret chamber, must argue great stupidity and blindness; when his coming was as sudden, visible, powerful, and general, to the destruction of that nation, as the lightning that comes from the east, and, in a moment, shines to the west.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For as the lightning cometh out of the east ... - This is not designed to denote the quarter from which he would come, but the manner. He does not mean to affirm that the “Son of man” will come from the “east,” but that he will come in a rapid and unexpected manner, like the lightning. Many would be looking for him in the desert, many in secret places; but he said it would be useless to be looking in that manner; it was useless to look to any particular part of the heavens to know where the lightning would next flash. In a moment it would blaze in an unexpected part of the heavens, and shine at once to the other part. So rapidly, so unexpectedly, in so unlooked-for a quarter, would be his coming. See Luke 10:18; Zechariah 9:14.

The coming of the Son of man - It has been doubted whether this refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, or to the coming at the day of judgment. For the solution of this doubt let it be remarked:

1.That those two events are the principal scenes in which our Lord said he would come, either in person or in judgment.

2.That the destruction of Jerusalem is described as his coming, his act.

3.That these events - the judgment of Jerusalem and the final judgment in many respects greatly resemble each other.

4.That they “will bear,” therefore, to be described in the same language; and,

5.Therefore, that the same words often include both events, as properly described by them.

The words had, doubtless, a primary reference to the destruction of Jerusalem, but they had, at the same time, such an amplitude of meaning as also to express his coming to judgment. See the introduction to Isaiah, section 7, (3).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 24:27. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west — It is worthy of remark that our Lord, in the most particular manner, points out the very march of the Roman army: they entered into Judea on the EAST, and carried on their conquest WESTWARD, as if not only the extensiveness of the ruin, but the very route which the army would take, were intended in the comparison of the lightning issuing from the east, and shining to the west.