Lange, Johann Peter
(On Matthew 11:12)
"the expression is metaphorical, denoting the violent bursting forth of the kingdom of heaven, as the kernel of the ancient theocracy, through the husk of the Old Testament. John and Christ are themselves the violent who take it by force -- the former, as commencing the assault; the latter, as completing the conquest. Accordingly, this is a figurative description of the great era which had then commenced." (Commentary, in loc.)
(On Matthew 11:16)
" the then existing last generation of Israel " (Lange, in loc).
(On Matthew 16:27)
"emphatically placed at the beginning of the sentence; not a simple future, but meaning, The event is impending that He shall come; He is about to come."
(On Matthew 23:36)
"The Lord mourns and laments over His own ruined Jerusalem... His whole pilgrimage on earth was troubled by distress for Jerusalem, like the hen which sees the eagle threatening in the sky, and anxiously seeks to gather her chickens under her wings. With such distress Jesus saw the Roman eagles approach for judgment upon the children of Jerusalem, and sought with the strongest solicitations of love to save them. But in vain! They were like dead children to the voice of maternal love!" (Comm. on Matt., p. 416)
(On Matthew 24:4-5)
"All those are essentially false Messiahs, who would assume the place which belongs to Christ in the kingdom of God. It includes, therefore, the enthusiasts who before the destruction of Jerusalem appeared as seducers of the people." (Commentary on Matthew xxiv, 5)
(On Romans 13:11)
"Dr. Hodge objects at some length to the reference to the second coming of Christ. On the other hand most modern German commentators defend this reference. Olshausen, De Wette, Philippi, Meyer, and others, think no other view in the least degree tenable; and Dr. Lange, while careful to guard against extreme theories on this point, denies the reference to eternal blessedness, and admits that the Parousia is intended. This opinion gains ground among Anglo-Saxon exegetes." (Lange's American editor, Commentary on Romans, in loc.)
(On the time of I John's composition)
"(the epistle) has quite the air of having been composed before the destruction of Jerusalem."
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