...following affecting expressions of concern, which are preserved by Saint Luke (xix. 41 — 44.): " And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and...because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." — These passages are direct and explicit predictions. References to the same event, some plain, some...

...which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young. — Deut. xxviii. 49, 50. And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and...because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. — Luke xix. 41 — 14. JUDEA was not conquered by the neighbouring Asiatic states, but by the Roman,...

...will avenge them speedily." Zw/fexviii. 7, 8. No. 214. He (ie Jesus,) beheld the City (ie Jerusalem,), and wept over it, saying, " If thou hadst known, "...because thou knewest not the time of thy " visitation." Luke xix. 41 — 44. No. 215. Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came to him to shew...

...even over their coming ruin, how were they still the pitied objects of a weeping Saviour's love: " And when he was come near, " he beheld the city and...thee round, and keep thee " in on every side, and they shall lay thee even " with the ground, and thy children within " thee; and they shall not leave...

...extent of this desolation, arc more clearly pointed out in a similar passage of the same Evangelist : ' For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies...thee, and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another.' [Luke xix. 43, 44.] But it is most fully and particularly unfolded in that minute description,...

...enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round* and keep thee in on every side. 44. And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children...because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. 21. 24. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled....

...thus attended He came down the steep descent of the Mount of Olives, which overlooks Jerusalem, " He beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, if thou...because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." This was not the only instance in which our Lord uttered the like complaint of the disobedience of...

...husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others." And upon his drawing near to the city of " Jerusalem, he wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou,...side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."...

...thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall...because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation *." We know by profane history that this prophecy was, a few years afterwards, literally fulfilled....

...thus attended He came down the steep descent of the Mount of Olives, which overlooks Jerusalem, " He beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, if thou...compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and 2 shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee...