Bruce, F.F.
(On Matthew 24:15 ; The "Seventy Weeks" of Daniel)
"When the temple area was taken by the Romans, and the sanctuary itself was still burning, the soldiers brought their legionary standards into the sacred precincts, set them up opposite the eastern gate, and offered sacrifice to them there, acclaiming Titus as imperator (victorious commander) as they did so. The Roman custom of offering sacrifice to their standards had already been commented on by a Jewish writer as a symptom of their pagan arrogance, but the offering if such sacrifice in the temple court was the supreme insult to the God of Israel. This action, following as it did the cessation of the daily sacrifice three weeks earlier, must have sensed to many Jews, as it evidently did to Josephus, a new and final fulfillment of Daniel's vision of a time when the continual burnt offering would be taken away and the abomination of desolation set up" (Bruce, p. 224)
The phrase "this generation" is found too often on Jesus' lips in this literal sense for us to suppose that it suddenly takes on a different meaning in the saying we are now examining. Moreover, if the generation of the end-time had been intended, 'that generation' would have been a more natural way of referring to it than 'this generation. (The Hard Sayings of Jesus, p. 227)
(On II Corinthians 5:4)
"Paul oscillates between the figure of a building to dwell in and a garment to put on. The verb here is ependysasthai, which, if the force of the prefix ep- (epi) is stressed, would mean 'put on over' (so NEB)."
"The abverb further conveys the force of epi and ependysasthai, 'put on over' (so NEB again); it almost suggests that the new body could be put on like an overcoat, above the clothes already being worn." (1 and 2 Corinthians, pp. 202,203)
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