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Luk 17:20. Πότε, when) They ask rather concerning the time, than concerning the place, which without dispute (or distinction) they supposed would be Jerusalem. The Lord answers both concerning the time and concerning the place, but in a way widely different from what they were supposing. Comp. Luk 17:37, ch. Luk 19:11, et seqq. [All along from Luk 17:20 to ch. Luk 18:14 there is one continued reply to that question of theirs; and those particulars which we have in ch. Luk 17:22-37, were repeated by the Saviour on the occasion recorded in Matthew 24, etc.-Harm., p. 419. It is a course full of danger, to neglect present duties, and then to extend the exercise of our prudence forward to what is future.-V. g.]-μετὰ παρατηρήσεως, with observation) with such pageant as that one can gradually and successively observe the πότε and the ὧδε, the time and the place. The correlatives are: the messengers, whom these who are observing [i.e. who are on the look out, as if the kingdom of God came with observation] would wish to say, here or there: and these observers themselves, who require to know the here or there.