SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:28
Y cuando estas cosas comenzaren a hacerse, mirad, y levantad vuestras cabezas, porque vuestra redencin est cerca.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 28. And when these things begin to come to pass , etc.] When the first of these signs appears, or any one of them: then look up and lift up your heads ; be cheerful and pleasant; do not hang down your heads as bulrushes, but erect them, and put on a cheerful countenance, and look upwards, from whence your help comes; and look out wistfully and intently, for your salvation and deliverance: for your redemption draweth nigh ; not the redemption of their souls from sin, Satan, the law, the world, death, and hell; for that was to be obtained, and was obtained, before any of these signs took place; nor the redemption of their bodies at the last day, in the resurrection, called the day of redemption; for this respects something that was to be, in the present age and generation; (see Luke 21:32) but the deliverance of the apostles and other Christians, from the persecutions of the Jews, which were very violent, and held till these times, and then they were freed from them: or by redemption is meant, the Redeemer, the son of man, who shall now come in power and glory, to destroy the Jews, and deliver his people; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, for he draws nigh who shall save you.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-28 - With much curiosity those about Christ ask as to the time when the great desolation should be. He answers with clearness and fulness, a far as was necessary to teach them their duty; for all knowledge i desirable as far as it is in order to practice. Though spiritual judgements are the most common in gospel times, yet God makes use of temporal judgments also. Christ tells them what hard things they shoul suffer for his name's sake, and encourages them to bear up under their trials, and to go on in their work, notwithstanding the opposition the would meet with. God will stand by you, and own you, and assist you This was remarkably fulfilled after the pouring out of the Spirit, by whom Christ gave his disciples wisdom and utterance. Though we may be losers for Christ, we shall not, we cannot be losers by him, in the end. It is our duty and interest at all times, especially in perilous trying times, to secure the safety of our own souls. It is by Christia patience we keep possession of our own souls, and keep out all thos impressions which would put us out of temper. We may view the prophec before us much as those Old Testament prophecies, which, together with their great object, embrace, or glance at some nearer object of importance to the church. Having given an idea of the times for abou thirty-eight years next to come, Christ shows what all those thing would end in, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utte dispersion of the Jewish nation; which would be a type and figure of Christ's second coming. The scattered Jews around us preach the trut of Christianity; and prove, that though heaven and earth shall pas away, the words of Jesus shall not pass away. They also remind us to pray for those times when neither the real, nor the spiritual Jerusalem, shall any longer be trodden down by the Gentiles, and when both Jews and Gentiles shall be turned to the Lord. When Christ came to destroy the Jews, he came to redeem the Christians that were persecute and oppressed by them; and then had the churches rest. When he comes to judge the world, he will redeem all that are his from their troubles So fully did the Divine judgements come upon the Jews, that their cit is set as an example before us, to show that sins will not pas unpunished; and that the terrors of the Lord, and his threatening against impenitent sinners, will all come to pass, even as his word wa true, and his wrath great upon Jerusalem.
Greek Textus Receptus
αρχομενων 756 5734 V-PMP-GPM δε 1161 CONJ τουτων 5130 D-GPM γινεσθαι 1096 5738 V-PNN ανακυψατε 352 5657 V-AAM-2P και 2532 CONJ επαρατε 1869 5657 V-AAM-2P τας 3588 T-APF κεφαλας 2776 N-APF υμων 5216 P-2GP διοτι 1360 CONJ εγγιζει 1448 5719 V-PAI-3S η 3588 T-NSF απολυτρωσις 629 N-NSF υμων 5216 P-2GP
Vincent's NT Word Studies
28. Look up. See on ch. xiii. 11. Graphic, as implying being previously bowed down with sorrow.Redemption (apolutrwsiv). See on lettest depart, ch. ii. 29.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
21:28 {Look up} (anakuyate). First aorist active imperative of anakuptw, to raise up. Here of the soul as in #Joh 8:7,10, but in #Lu 13:11 of the body. These the only N.T. examples of this common verb. {Redemption} (apolutrwsis). Act of redeeming from apolutrow. The final act at the second coming of Christ, a glorious hope.
