Note 64 — Chapter I · RELATION OF JESUS TO THE IDEA OF A SUFFERING AND DYING MESSIAH; HIS DISCOURSES ON HIS DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND SECOND ADVENT.
George Eliot translation
Compare, on the import and connexion of this discourse, Fritzsche, in Matth., p. 695 ff; De Wette, exeg. Handb., 1, 1, s. 197 ff; Weizel, die unchristliche Unsterblichkeitslehre, in the theol. Studien und Kritiken, 1836, s. 599 ff.—In agreement with these commentators I append the following division of the passage in Matthew:
I. Signs of the end, τέλος, xxiv. 4–14. a. More remote signs, the beginning of sorrows, ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων, 4–8. b. More immediate signs, the actual sorrows, 9–14.
II. The end, τέλος, itself, xxiv. 15–25, 46. a. Its commencement with the destruction of Jerusalem, and the great tribulation θλῖψις which accompanies it, 15–28. b. Its culminating point: the advent of the Messiah, together with the assembling of his elect, 29–31. (Here follow retrospective observations and warnings, xxiv. 32-xxv. 30.) c. Close of the τέλος with the messianic judgment, 31–46.
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