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Mat 23:38. Ἰδοὺ, ἀφίεται, Behold [your house] is left) The present tense twice expressed.[1020] He uttered these words as He was going out of the Temple. See ch. Mat 24:1, and cf. Joh 12:36.-Ὁ ΟἾΚΟς ὙΜῶΝ, your house) which is otherwise called the house of the Lord. Thus, in Exo 32:7, God says to Moses, thy people.[1021]-ἔρημος, desolate, or desert) sc. as being left by the Messiah.[1022] Even after His ascension, Christ employed the Temple in a remarkable manner with His disciples. But with regard to Judaism, the Temple now ceased to be what it had been, and for this reason was at length destroyed; see Mat 23:36. The word ἜΡΗΜΟς is often employed with a particular reference.[1023] Thus the Forum is said to be ἜΡΗΜΟΝ, when no judicial proceedings are being carried on in it.
[1020] This refers to ἀποστέλλω in Mat 23:34.-(I. B.)
[1021] Though on other occasions God said of them, “My people.”-ED.
[1022] For when the Messiah is absent, there is nothing that is not desolate and deserted.-V. g.
[1023] i.e. To denote the absence of that which constituted the characteristic or excellence of the object under consideration.-(I. B.)