1 Machabæorum 24:3

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Sedente autem eo super montem Oliveti, accesserunt ad eum discipuli secreto, dicentes: Dic nobis, quando hæc erunt? et quod signum adventus tui, et consummationis sæculi?

Parallel Translations

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Sedente autem eo super montem Oliveti, accesserunt ad eum discipuli secreto dicentes: "Dic nobis: Quando haec erunt, et quod signum adventus tui et consummationis saeculi?".

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Sedente autem eo super montem Oliveti, accesserunt ad eum discipuli secreto, dicentes : Dic nobis, quando h�c erunt ? et quod signum adventus tui, et consummationis s�culi ?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he sat: Matthew 21:1, Mark 13:3, Mark 13:4

the disciples: Matthew 13:10, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 13:36, Matthew 15:12, Matthew 17:19

Tell: Daniel 12:6-8, Luke 21:7, John 21:21, John 21:22, Acts 1:7, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

the sign: Matthew 24:32, Matthew 24:33, Matthew 24:43

the end: Matthew 13:39, Matthew 13:40, Matthew 13:49, Matthew 28:20, Hebrews 9:26

Reciprocal: Isaiah 24:19 - General Zechariah 14:5 - the Lord Matthew 16:28 - see Matthew 24:14 - and then Matthew 24:30 - the sign Mark 11:1 - at the Luke 13:23 - And Luke 17:30 - General Acts 1:6 - Lord Acts 1:12 - from Acts 3:20 - General 2 Peter 1:16 - coming

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives,.... Which was on the east of the city of Jerusalem a, "over against the temple", as Mark says, and where he could sit and take a full view of it; for the wall on the east side was lower than any other, and that for this reason; that when the high priest burnt the red heifer on this mount, as he did, and sprinkled the blood, he might have a view of the gate of the temple. It is said b,

"all the walls which were there, were very high, except the eastern wall; for the high priest, when he burned the heifer, stood on the top of the mount of Olives, and directed himself, and looked to the gate of the temple, at the time he sprinkled the blood.''

This place, very probably, our Lord chose to sit in, that he might give his disciples an occasion to discourse more largely with him on this subject; and that he might take the opportunity of acquainting them with what would be the signs and forerunners of this desolation, and so it proved:

the disciples came to him privately; these four at least, Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, as Mark relates; and that either separately from the rest of the disciples, or from the multitude: it might not be thought so proper, to ask the following questions before them, and they might suppose that Christ would not be so ready to give an answer to them plainly, before the common people; when they might hope to be indulged with one by him, in private:

saying, tell us, when shall these things be? That this house will be left desolate, these buildings will be destroyed, and not one stone left upon another? This first question relates purely to the destruction of the temple, and to this Christ first answers, from

Matthew 24:4.

And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? Which two are put together, as what they supposed would be at the same time, and immediately follow the destruction of the temple. That he was come in the flesh, and was the true Messiah, they firmly believed: he was with them, and they expected he would continue with them, for they had no notion of his leaving them, and coming again. When he at any time spake of his dying and rising from the dead, they seemed not to understand it: wherefore this coming of his, the sign of which, they inquire, is not to be understood of his coming a second time to judge the world, at the last day; but of his coming in his kingdom and glory, which they had observed him some little time before to speak of; declaring that some present should not die, till they saw it: wherefore they wanted to be informed, by what sign they might know, when he would set up his temporal kingdom; for since the temple was to be destroyed, they might hope a new one would be built, much more magnificent than this, and which is a Jewish notion; and thai a new state of things would commence; the present world, or age, would be at a period; and the world to come, they had so often heard of from the Jewish doctors, would take place; and therefore they ask also, of the sign of the end of the world, or present state of things in the Jewish economy: to this Christ answers, in the latter part of this chapter, though not to the sense in which they put the questions; yet in the true sense of the coming of the son of man, and the end of the world; and in such a manner, as might be very instructive to them, and is to us.

a Bartenora in Misn. Middot, c. 1. sect. 3. b Misn. lb. c. 2. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He sat upon the Mount of Olives - See the notes at Matthew 21:1. From that mount there was a magnificent view of the whole city.

The disciples came unto him privately - Not all of them, but Peter, James, John, and Andrew, Mark 13:3. The prediction that the temple would be destroyed Matthew 24:2 had been made in the presence of all the apostles. A “part” now came privately to know more particularly when this would be.

When shall these things be? - There are three questions here:

1.When those things should take place

2.What should be the signs of his own coming

3.What should be the signs that the end of the world was near

To these questions He replies in this and the following chapters. This He does, not by noticing them distinctly, but by intermingling the descriptions of the destruction of Jerusalem and of the end of the world, so that it is sometimes difficult to tell to what particular subject his remarks apply. The principle on which this combined description of two events was spoken appears to be, that “they could be described in the same words,” and therefore the accounts are intermingled. A similar use of language is found in some parts of Isaiah, where the same language will describe the return from the Babylonian captivity, and deliverance by the Messiah. See Introduction to Isaiah, section 7.

Sign of thy coming - Evidence that thou art coming. By what token shall we know that thou art coming?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 24:3. Tell us, when shall these things be? — There appear to be three questions asked here by the disciples.

1st. When shall these things be? viz. the destruction of the city, temple, and Jewish state.

2dly. What shall be the sign of thy coming? viz. to execute these judgments upon them, and to establish thy own Church: and

3dly. When shall this world end? When wilt thou come to judge the quick and the dead?

But there are some who maintain that these are but three parts of the same question, and that our Lord's answers only refer to the destruction of the Jewish state, and that nothing is spoken here concerning the LAST or judgment day.

End of the world — του αιωνος; or, of the age, viz. the Jewish economy, which is a frequent accommodated meaning of the word αιων, the proper meaning of which is, as Aristotle (De Caelo) observes, ETERNAL. αιων, quasi αει ων continual being: and no words can more forcibly point out eternity than these. Genesis 21:33.