Affliction Assuredly Beginning Created Creation Distress Equaled God's Occurred Oppression Sorrow Suffering Till Tribulation Unequaled
13:19 For [in] {f} those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
(f) This is an idiom which the Hebrews use and it has a great power in it, for it shows us that during that entire time one misery will follow another in such a way as if the time itself was very misery itself. So the prophet Amos says that the day of the Lord will be darkness; Am 5:20.
13:19 In those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation - May it not be doubted, whether this be yet fully accomplished? Is not much of this affliction still to come?
13:14-23 The Jews in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the Christians, hastened their own ruin apace. Here we have a prediction of that ruin which came upon them within less than forty years after this. Such destruction and desolation, that the like cannot be found in any history. Promises of power to persevere, and cautions against falling away, well agree with each other. But the more we consider these things, the more we shall see abundant cause to flee without delay for refuge to Christ, and to renounce every earthly object, for the salvation of our souls.
Affliction Assuredly Beginning Created Creation Distress Equaled First God's Occurred Oppression Sorrow Suffering Time Times Tribulation Unequaled World
Affliction Assuredly Beginning Created Creation Distress Equaled First God's Occurred Oppression Sorrow Suffering Time Times Tribulation Unequaled World
