35 That upon you may come all the blood of Zacharias, nay, notwithstanding your hypocrify, ye even exceed them in malice, and will fill up the measure of their iniquity. 33. (Ye obftinate and incorrigible Generation of Vipers: By your hypocrify indeed, you may here efcape the punishment of Men; but how will you avoid the Future and Eternal Judgment of God?) 34. Ye even exceed, I fay, the malice of your Forefathers, and will fill up the measure of their iniquity. For behold I fend you Prophets and Holy Men, to inftruct you in the Doctrine of true Religion; but ye will flay and crucify them, and beat thern even in the places of God's publick Worship, and pursue and perfecute them from one City to another. 35. Wherefore I tell you, the punishment that Thall be inflicted by Divine Vengeance upon the Men of this present Generation, fhall be as great and and dreadful, as if not on ly the Forefathers of this People in their feveral Generations, but the Men who are now alive had in their own persons been the Murderers of all the Righteous and Good Men, who have been unjuftly martyred fince the time of Adam to this very day. 36. Affuredly I tell you, and repeat it to you again, that fuch a terrible punish ment as this, fhall certainly fall upon the Men of this present Generation. 37. O Ferufalem, Ferufalem, thou that waft once the Holy City, and the BeLoved of God, but haft fince rejected God, and perfecuted his Servants, and Slain his Prophets, and continued obftinately impenitent; How often has God tendered to thee the offers of Pardon and Mercy, and invited thee to Repentance with all the pity and kindnefs, that a tender Father can fhew to his moft beloved Child! But thou refufedft to hear. whom ye flew be and the altar. tween the temple 38 Behold, your house is left unto you defolate. 39 For I fay unto you, Ye fhall not fee me henceforth, till ye fhall fay Bleffed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. 38. Behold Now therefore the Time of Mercy is paft; and the Final Defolation of the City and Temple, with the fearful Destruction of the Jewish Nation, is irreversibly decreed by God. 39. And I affure you the time will speedily come, and it is now at hand, when ye fhall fee me no more, till ye: fhall be forced to own me to be indeed the Meffiah, the Son of God with Power. CHAP. 1. Α CHA P. XXIV. FTER this, Je AND Jefus Afus departed from and departed from the Temple; and as he was going out, his Difciples, who had heard him fpeak of the Defolation of the City and Temple, defired him to obferve what a ftately and beautiful Stru&ture the Temple was; infinuating as if they thought it pity, that fo noble a Building should be fo miferably destroyed. 2. But Jefus answered: Do ye admire these things, and look upon them with pity? I tell you again,they fhall all be destroyed with fuch a compleat and utter Defolation, that there fhall not be left fo much as one Stone upon another which fhall not be caft down. 3. And when he was come to the Mount of Olives, and was fet down there, his Difciples came the temple; and his difciples came to bim buildings of the tem for to fhew him the ple. 2 And Jefus faid unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I fay unto you, There fhall not be left here one ftone fhall not be thrown down. upon another that fat upon the Mount 3 And as he of Olives, the difciples came unto him privately, faying, Tell Tell us when shall these things be? and what shall be the fign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? to him privately and asked him, faying; When shall thefe Defolations, and all these ftrange things, which you have told us of, be accomplished? And by what Signs fhall we know, when the Confummation of the prefent ftate of Things in the World fhall be? And when, and by what Revolutions, the Kingdom of the Meffias fhall be established? 4. To this general Queftion, which the Difciples (who had not yet any clear. Notion what the State and Duration of the Chriftian Difpenfation was to be) were not capable of propofing more diftinctly; Jefus accordingly returned fuch an Anfwer, as being immediately and properly a Defcription of the final Deftruction of Jerufalem and of the Jewish Nation, which was to be the firft Eftablishment of the Kingdom of Chrift; might alfo at the fame time contain an obfcure prophecy of the |