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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 22:7 - 22:7
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But when the king - the Great God, who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
heard thereof, he was wroth - at the affront put both on His Son, and on Himself who had deigned to invite them.
and he sent forth his armies - The Romans are here styled God’s armies, just as the Assyrian is styled “the rod of His anger” (Isa 10:5), as being the executors of His judicial vengeance.
and destroyed those murderers - and in what vast numbers did they do it!
and burned up their city - Ah! Jerusalem, once “the city of the Great King” (Psa 48:2), and even up almost to this time (Mat 5:35); but now it is “their city” - just as our Lord, a day or two after this, said of the temple, where God had so long dwelt, “Behold your house is left unto you desolate” (Mat 23:38)! Compare Luk 19:43, Luk 19:44.