Anf-03 v.viii.xxxiii Pg 9
Such cases of obvious meaning, which required no explanation, are referred to in Matt. xxi. 45 and Luke xx. 19.
as in the parable of the fig-tree, which was spared a while in hopes of improvement—an emblem of Jewish sterility. Now, if even parables obscure not the light of the gospel, how unlikely it is that plain sentences and declarations, which have an unmistakeable meaning, should signify any other thing than their literal sense! But it is by such declarations and sentences that the Lord sets forth either the last judgment, or the kingdom, or the resurrection: “It shall be more tolerable,” He says, “for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.”7503 7503
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes x.v Pg 1.4, Lifetimes x.iii Pg 31.3
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 20
VERSE (19) - :14; 19:47,48 Mt 21:45,46; 26:3,4 Mr 12:12
