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29. So ye, in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to
pass--rather, "coming to pass."
know that it--"the kingdom of God"
(Lu 21:31).
is nigh, even at the doors--that is, the full manifestation of it;
for till then it admitted of no full development. In Luke
(Lu 21:28)
the following words precede these: "And when these things begin to come
to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption
draweth nigh"--their redemption, in the first instance certainly, from
Jewish oppression
(1Th 2:14-16;
Lu 11:52):
but in the highest sense of these words, redemption from all the
oppressions and miseries of the present state at the second appearing
of the Lord Jesus.
JFB.
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