Category: New Testament

The third sort of the exercise of Christ’s disciples is persecution, imprisonment and slaughter. Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651) Matthew 24:9 Meaning – They Shall Deliver You Up to Be Afflicted, and Shall Kill You Christians must resolve, for the gospel to lose their…

Matthew 24:8 Meaning – Beginning of Sorrows When such evils befall nations in God’s displeasure for their sins, and specially for abusing the gospel, it is but a beginning of the sorrows which God will bring at length upon this wicked world; for all these are the beginning of sorrows. Dickson, David – A Brief…

Matthew 24:7 Meaning – Nation Shall Rise Against Nation It is decreed in heaven to punish the wickedness of the world and specially the contempt of the gospel by yoking of kingdoms and nations one against another, and to plague all by famine and pestilence and earthquakes in divers places; for it is foretold That…

Another sort of the temptations of the church is the terror of wars. Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651) Matthew 24:6 Meaning – Ye Shall Hear of Wars If wars fall out about religion and the gospel, it is no small trial; therefore he tell…

To the end that his disciples, not only then living but in all ages following, should guard themselves against all sorts of temptations to the end of the world, he warns them of five or six sorts of temptations or exercises abiding them. Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ…

Table of Contents Matthew 24 Commentary by J.A. Alexander Though our Lord had solemnly concluded his public work as a teacher, and taken an affecting leave of Israel as a people (Matthew 23:37-39), his prophetic ministry was yet to be wound up, within a smaller circle, and by a prophetical discourse, in the strictest sense…