Teks -- Matthew 24:8 (NET)

24:8 All these things are the beginning of birth pains.

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Robertson: Mat 24:8 - The beginning of travail

The beginning of travail ( archē odinōn ).

The word means birth-pangs and the Jews used the very phrase for the sufferings of the Messiah which were to come before the coming of the Messiah (Book of Jubilees, 23:18; Apoc. of Baruch 27-29). But the word occurs with no idea of birth as the pains of death (Psa 18:5; Act 2:24). These woes, says Jesus, are not a proof of the end, but of the beginning.

Clarke: Mat 24:8 - All these are the beginning of sorrows

All these are the beginning of sorrows - Ωδινων, travailing pains. The whole land of Judea is represented under the notion of a woman in grievous travail; but our Lord intimates, that all that had already been mentioned were only the first pangs and throes, and nothing in comparison of that hard and death-bringing labor, which should afterwards take place

From the calamities of the nation in general, our Lord passes to those of the Christians; and, indeed, the sufferings of his followers were often occasioned by the judgments sent upon the land, as the poor Christians were charged with being the cause of these national calamities, and were cruelly persecuted on that account.

Calvin: Mat 24:8 - But all these things are the beginnings of sorrows

8.But all these things are the beginnings of sorrows Not that believers, who always have abundant consolations in calamities, should consume themselves with grief, but that they should lay their account with a long exercise of patience. Luke adds likewise earthquakes, and signs from heaven, with respect to which, though we have no authentic history of them, yet it is enough that they were predicted by Christ. The reader will find the rest in Josephus, (Wars of the Jews, VI. 5:3.)

Defender: Mat 24:8 - beginning of sorrows

"The beginning of sorrows [travail]" is the sign just given (widespread war, famines, etc.). The signs indicate that there will be a succession of similar "travail pains," in preparation for the birth of the new age to come. The first time such a complex of events ever occurred in history was during, and immediately after, the years of World War I. There have been a number since, a fact which encourages many to believe that the Lord's second coming is near."

TSK: Mat 24:8

Lev 26:18-29; Deu 28:59; Isa 9:12, Isa 9:17, Isa 9:21, Isa 10:4; 1Th 5:3; 1Pe 4:17, 1Pe 4:18

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Poole: Mat 24:6-8

Ver. 6-8. Mark hath the same, Mar 13:7,8 . Luke hath also much the same, Luk 21:9-11 , only he addeth, fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. Interpreters think this prophecy did chiefly respect the destruction of Jerusalem, for the time from our Saviour’ s death to that time was full of seditions and insurrections, both in Judea and elsewhere. The truth of our Saviour’ s words as to this is attested by Josephus largely, from the eleventh chapter of his second book of the Wars of the Jews to the end of the fourth book. Besides that there were great wars between Otho, and Vitellius, and Vespasian, the Roman emperor who succeeded Nero, we read of one famine, Act 11:28 , which Agabus there prophesied should be in the time of Claudius Caesar. Of earthquakes in several places mention is made in divers histories. Our Saviour tells them that these things should be, but the end should not be presently, which any one that will read Josephus’ s history of the Wars of the Jews, will see abundantly verified upon the taking of Jerusalem by the Roman armies.

Gill: Mat 24:8 - All these are the beginning of sorrows

All these are the beginning of sorrows,.... They were only a prelude unto them, and forerunners of them; they were only some foretastes of what would be, and were far from being the worst that should be endured. These were but light, in comparison of what befell the Jews, in their dreadful destruction. The word here used, signifies the sorrows and pains of a woman in travail. The Jews expect great sorrows and distresses in the times of the Messiah, and use a word to express them by, which answers to this, and call them, חבלי המשיח, "the sorrows of the Messiah"; חבלי, they say ^r, signifies the sorrows of a woman in travail; and the Syriac version uses the same word here. These they represent to be very great, and express much concern to be delivered from them. They ^s ask,

"what shall a man do, to be delivered from "the sorrows of the Messiah?" He must employ himself in the law, and in liberality.''

And again ^t,

"he that observes the three meals on the sabbath day, shall be delivered from three punishments; from "the sorrows of the Messiah", from the judgment of hell, and from Gog and Magog.''

But alas there was no other way of escaping them, but by faith in the true Messiah, Jesus; and it was for their disbelief and rejection of him, that these came upon them.