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Mat 24:23. τοτέ, then) sc. at the time of the fall of Jerusalem.-μὴ πιστεύσητε, do not believe) For from that time forth the Son of Man will not be seen until His Advent. His coming to judgment, therefore, is mentioned incidentally in Mat 24:27, and professedly in Mat 24:29,[1048] 30.-ὧδε, here) sc. where any one is who calls himself the Messiah.
[1048] Bengel means, that until His final Advent, which all must recognise when it takes place, Christ shall not be visible; and that, therefore, any who says he is Christ before then, is ipso facto an impostor. The coming, accordingly, in Mat 24:27, is not a personal one, but a virtual coming in the judgments inflicted on Jerusalem and Judea: therefore it is only incidentally dwelt on as His coming. But the coming, in Mat 24:29, is the personal, visible, and final coming; and therefore it is described professedly as such: “Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man-they shall see the Son of man.”-ED.