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The Life Of Jesus Christ In Its Historical Connexion by Augustus Neander

Section 217. The Signs of the Times. (Luke, xii., 54.)

Others, again, were referred by Christ to the signs of the times to learn the import of his appearance, and what awaited them if they neglected it. As they could know from a cloud in the west that a storm was approaching, and from the blowing of the south wind that there would be heat; so (he told them), if they would observe the signs of history as carefully as those of nature, they could discern the approaching judgments of God from the phenomena of the times. But this was precisely their guilt (v.56), that in their heedless folly they gave no thought to these indications of the evil that was nigh. He called them hypocrites, either because they affected to plead ignorance while the means of knowledge were within their reach, and lacked the disposition to see, not the ability; or because, while the present was serious, and the future threatening, they were utterly unconscious of the value of intercourse with him from their folly in neglecting the signs of the times, and now sought him under the impulse of a merely transient excitement.

|Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right! When thou goest with thine adversary,| &c. (v.58). (Why must another point out to them what they ought to know themselves, viz., that they should agree with the Messiah while he was yet with them on earth; since he would otherwise become their accuser before God, and make it impossible to escape the penalty they so justly deserved -- an allusion to the terrible lot which the Jewish people procured for themselves.)

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