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Luk 19:44. Τὰ τέκνα σου, thy children) The then existing age is denoted by this expression, extending to forty years subsequent, as in ch. Luk 23:28; Mat 24:34.-ἐν σοὶ, in thee) The people had been collected together at the time of the Passover, when the city was encompassed.-[λίθον ἐπὶ λίθῳ, a stone upon a stone [“one stone upon another”]) even in the very temple of the city.-V. g.]-ἀνθʼ ὧν, because) The Jews, as Lightfoot observes, have assigned various causes, drawn from various sins, for their city being overthrown; the true cause is in this passage indicated.-[οὐκ ἔγνως, thou hast not known) Rom 10:19 (“Did not Israel know?”); nor hast thou even wished to know, ch. Luk 13:34 (How often would I have gathered thy children, etc., and ye would not!).-V. g.]