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4:17 My beloved son - Elsewhere he styles him "brother," Co2 1:1;but here paternal affection takes place. As I teach - No less by example than precept.

4:18 Now some are puffed up - St. Paul saw, by a divine light, the thoughts which would arise in their hearts. As if I would not come - Because I send Timothy.

4:19 I will know - He here shows his fatherly authority Not the big, empty speech of these vain boasters, but how much of the power of God attends them.

4:20 For the kingdom of God - Real religion, does not consist in words, but in the power of God ruling the heart.

4:21 With a rod - That is, with severity.

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5:1 Fornication - The original word implies criminal conversation of any kind whatever. His father's wife - While his father was alive.

5:2 Are ye puffed up? Should ye not rather have mourned - Have solemnly humbled yourselves, and at that time of solemnmourning have expelled that notorious sinner from your communion?

5:3 I verily, as present in spirit - Having a full (it seems, a miraculous) view of the whole fact. Have already, as if I were actually present, judged him who hath so scandalously done this.

5:4 And my spirit - Present with you. With the power of the Lord Jesus Christ - To confirm my sentence.

5:5 To deliver such an one - This was the highest degree of punishment in the Christian church; and we may observe, the passing this sentence was the act of the apostle, not of the Corinthians. To Satan - Who was usually permitted, in such cases, to inflict pain or sickness on the offender. For the destruction - Though slowly and gradually. Of the flesh - Unless prevented by speedy repentance.

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24:1  Mar 13:1; Luk 21:5.

24:2 There shall not he left one stone upon another - This was most punctually fulfilled; for after the temple was burnt, Titus, the Roman general, ordered the very foundations of it to be dug up; after which the ground on which it stood was ploughed up by Turnus Rufus.

24:3 As he sat on the mount of Olives - Whence they had a full view of the temple. When shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? - The disciples inquire confusedly,

1. Concerning the time of the destruction of the temple;
2. Concerning the signs of Christ's coming, and of the end of the world, as if they imagined these two were the same thing.

1. The destruction of the temple and city, with the signs preceding, Mat 24:4, etc, Mat 24:15, etc.
2. His own coming, and the end of the world, with the signs thereof, Mat 24:29-31..
3. The time of the destruction of the temple, Mat 24:32, etc.
4. The time of the end of the world, Mat 24:36.

24:4 Take heed that no man deceive you - The caution is more particularly designed for the succeeding Christians, whom the apostles then represented. The first sign of my coming is, the rise of false prophets. But it is highly probable, many of these things refer to more important events, which are yet to come.

24:5 Many shall come in my name - First, false Christs, next, false prophets, Mat 24:11. At length, both together, Mat 24:24.And indeed never did so many impostors appear in the world as a few years before the destruction of Jerusalem; undoubtedly because that was the time wherein the Jews in general expected the Messiah.

24:6 Wars - Near: Rumours of wars - At a distance. All these things must come to pass - As a foundation for lasting tranquillity.But the end - Concerning which ye inquire, is not yet - So far from it, that this is but the beginning sorrows.

24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to affliction - As if ye were the cause of all these evils. And ye shall he hated of all nations - Even of those who tolerate all other sects and parties; but in no nation will the children of the devil tolerate the children of God. Mat 10:17.

24:10 Then shall many he offended - So as utterly to make shipwreck of faith and a pure conscience. But hold ye fast faith, Mat 24:11.in spite of false prophets: love, even when iniquity and offences abound, Mat 24:12. And hope, unto the end, Mat 24:13. He that does so, shall be snatched out of the burning. The love of many will wax cold - The generality of those who love God will (like the Church at Ephesus, Rev 2:4,) leave their first love.

24:13  Mat 10:22; Mar 13:13; Luk 21:17.