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Luk_17:23-24. See on Mat_24:23-27.
ἐροῦσιν κ . τ . λ .] on the occasion of the appearance of false Messiahs. A locality of fixed limits, moreover (comp. Luk_17:21), does not characterize the solemn appearing of the kingdom.
ἰδοὺ … ὧδε ] namely: is the Messiah!
μὴ ἀπέλθ . μηδὲ διώξ .] a climax: Go not forth, nor follow after (sectamini), to wit, those of whom this is asserted.
Luk_17:24. The lightning which lightens; comp. similar expressions in Lobeck, Paral. p. 503.
ἐκ τῆς ] Supply χώρας . See Bos, Ellips. ed. Schaefer, pp. 560, 562; Winer, p. 522 [E. T. 740]: flashing out from the one region under the heaven (which expands under the heaven, ὑπό with an accusative) lightens even to the other (opposite one[220]).
οὕτως ] in such a manner of appearance as manifests itself in a moment and universally.
[220] What Lange reads into the passage, “from the old world to the new,” is not there at all. Comp. Mat_24:27.