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” (Luk 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 (Luk 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; Luk 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.