21 Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it.
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And then if any man shall say to you,.... During those days of tribulation and affliction, or when shortened and at an end:
lo! here is Christ, or lo! he is there; the Messiah has appeared in such or in such a place, to deliver you from your national distresses and calamities, and from the Roman yoke and bondage:
believe him not; give no credit to such a report, for the reason following; See Gill on Matthew 24:23.
And then, if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo he is there; believe him not--So Luke 17:23. No one can read JOSEPHUS' account of what took place before the destruction of Jerusalem without seeing how strikingly this was fulfilled.
to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect--implying that this, though all but done, will prove impossible. What a precious assurance! (Compare 2-Thessalonians 2:9-12).
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