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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Matius 24:27
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Sebab sama seperti kilat memancar dari sebelah timur dan melontarkan cahayanya sampai ke barat, demikian pulalah kelak kedatangan Anak Manusia.
Karena seperti kilat memancar dari timur, dan bercahaya sampai ke barat, demikian juga kedatangan Anak manusia.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as: Job 37:3, Job 38:35, Isaiah 30:30, Zechariah 9:14, Luke 17:24-37
the coming: Matthew 16:28, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 4:5, James 5:8, 2 Peter 3:4
Reciprocal: Job 38:24 - General Lamentations 4:19 - persecutors Ezekiel 1:14 - General Zechariah 14:5 - the Lord Malachi 4:6 - lest Matthew 10:23 - till Luke 17:30 - General John 21:22 - If James 5:7 - unto 2 Peter 1:16 - coming
Cross-References
He sayde moreouer: blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt.
Then sayde Abram vnto Lot: let there be no strife I pray thee betweene thee and me, and betweene my heardmen and thyne, for we be brethren.
And blessed [be] the high God, which hath deliuered thyne enemies vnto thy hande: and Abram gaue him tithes of all.
But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isahac.
And the seruaunt toke ten Camelles of the Camelles of his maister, & departed (& had of al maner of goods of his maister with him) and so he arose & went to Mesopotamia, vnto ye citie of Nachor.
And made his Camelles to lye downe without the citie by a welles side of water at euen, about the time that women come out to drawe water.
And he saide: Lord God of my maister Abraham, I pray thee sende me good speede this day, and shewe mercy vnto my maister Abraham.
Lo, I stande here by the well of water, and the daughters of the me of this citie come out to drawe water:
And she sayd: drinke my Lorde. And she hasted, and let downe her pytcher vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke.
And when she had geuen him drinke, she sayde: I wyll drawe water for thy Camelles also, vntyl they haue dronke ynough.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For as the lightning cometh out of the east,.... The eastern part of the horizon,
and shineth even unto the west; to the western part of it, with great clearness; in a moment; in the twinkling of an eye, filling the whole intermediate space;
so shall also the coming of the son of man be; which must be understood not of his last coming to judgment, though that will be sudden, visible, and universal; he will at once come to, and be seen by all, in the clouds of heaven, and not in deserts and secret chambers: nor of his spiritual coming in the more sudden, and clear, and powerful preaching of the Gospel all over the Gentile world; for this was to be done before the destruction of Jerusalem: but of his coming in his wrath and vengeance to destroy that people, their nation, city, and temple: so that after this to look for the Messiah in a desert, or secret chamber, must argue great stupidity and blindness; when his coming was as sudden, visible, powerful, and general, to the destruction of that nation, as the lightning that comes from the east, and, in a moment, shines to the west.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For as the lightning cometh out of the east ... - This is not designed to denote the quarter from which he would come, but the manner. He does not mean to affirm that the “Son of man” will come from the “east,” but that he will come in a rapid and unexpected manner, like the lightning. Many would be looking for him in the desert, many in secret places; but he said it would be useless to be looking in that manner; it was useless to look to any particular part of the heavens to know where the lightning would next flash. In a moment it would blaze in an unexpected part of the heavens, and shine at once to the other part. So rapidly, so unexpectedly, in so unlooked-for a quarter, would be his coming. See Luke 10:18; Zechariah 9:14.
The coming of the Son of man - It has been doubted whether this refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, or to the coming at the day of judgment. For the solution of this doubt let it be remarked:
1.That those two events are the principal scenes in which our Lord said he would come, either in person or in judgment.
2.That the destruction of Jerusalem is described as his coming, his act.
3.That these events - the judgment of Jerusalem and the final judgment in many respects greatly resemble each other.
4.That they “will bear,” therefore, to be described in the same language; and,
5.Therefore, that the same words often include both events, as properly described by them.
The words had, doubtless, a primary reference to the destruction of Jerusalem, but they had, at the same time, such an amplitude of meaning as also to express his coming to judgment. See the introduction to Isaiah, section 7, (3).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 24:27. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west — It is worthy of remark that our Lord, in the most particular manner, points out the very march of the Roman army: they entered into Judea on the EAST, and carried on their conquest WESTWARD, as if not only the extensiveness of the ruin, but the very route which the army would take, were intended in the comparison of the lightning issuing from the east, and shining to the west.
