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privately = apart. Luk 21 was spoken publicly.
coming = presence. Greek. parousia. This is the first of twenty-four occurrences of this important word (Mat_24:3, Mat_24:27, Mat_24:37, Mat_24:39; 1Co_15:23; 1Co_16:17. 2Co_7:6, 2Co_7:7; 2Co_10:10. Php_1:1, Php_1:26; Php_2:12. 1Th_2:19; 1Th_3:13; 1Th_4:15; 1Th_5:23. 2Th_2:1, 2Th_2:8, 2Th_2:9. Jam_5:7, Jam_5:8; 2Pe_1:16; 2Pe_3:4, 2Pe_3:12; 1Jn_2:28). The Papyri show that "from the Ptolemaic period down to the second century A.D. the word is traced in the East as a technical expression for the arrival or the visit of the king or the emperor", also of other persons in authority, or of troops. (See Deissmann's Light, &c, pp. 372-8, 441-5). It is not therefore a N. T word, as some have supposed.
the end of the world. See App-129.
the end = the sunteleia. Sunteleia = meeting together of all that marks the consummation of the age; not telos = the actual end, verses: Mat_24:6, Mat_24:13, Mat_24:14.
world. See App-129.