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ences,`hJcnars'r's saeosn ooruss. Qll. The time this parable is applicable to.In the previous our Savior had answeredthreequestionschapter w 'ch his disciples had put to him on themount of Olives, when they came to him privately,1ngh;nTell"sapus, when shall these things be hatPrherl,w Jerusalem should be levelled withground."And what shall be the sign ofthy coming?" hat ia,his second coming in the clouds of heaven with powerand great glory, as he had before informed them, whichisyea future.mudti the end of theuwlqrqd," or, transateit,"e o eage, tow'c ampeec asrfsogewilling to agree; but what age? is the question.answer, The gospel age, or the kingdom of heaven. See14th "verse, 'I'his gospel of the kingdom shall bepreached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;and then shall the end come." "The law and theprophets were until J ohn, since which time the kingdomof heaven is preached." The Jewish economy is nowhere called the kingdom of heaven; but this expres~sion_belongs exclusively to the gospel ; andofcourse anyage in which the gospel or kmgdom of heaven is preachedJAnynov-can never be applied to the Jewishice in Scripture interpretation must reE. y admit this.These were the questions proposed by the disciples totheir divine Master, and were answered in themanner: From the 4th to the 14th verses inclusive followiggthe 24thchapter of Matthew, Christ informs his disciplesof the troub es, trials, persecutions, and distress whichthey and his followers should suH`er, down to the end ofthe gospel-age. He also informs them by what`meansthey must sulfer- by false brethren, by deceit, by wars,rumors of wars, of nations, earthquakes, afllicstions, death, hatred, club?_ betrayals, false prophets,coldness, iniquity, fammes, and pestrlence, and these tothe end of the .gospel From the 15th to the 22d,inclusive he alludes toni; destruction of Jerusalem, and.particularly gives his followers waming of what theyshall suiier, and informs them what to o at that time;he tells them what to pray for, and how to escapethemust fo ow this great tribulation.siege, and how to avoid certain consequences which