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Excerpt from The Biblical Illustrator: Or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations, Expository, Scientific, Geographical, Historical, and Homiletic, Gathered From a Wide Range of Home and Foreign Literature, on the Verses of the Bible
Gospel, connected in his mind, as a matter of private interpretation and expec tation, the glorious personal appearing of our Lord with the anticipated destruction of Jerusalem. The precise times and seasons were not distinctly and minutely unrolled to the eyes of evangelists and apostles. The prophetical perspective did not show the length of the intervals that intervened along the path of the future, and the inspired writers were consequently left, like the prophets of old, to search what and what manner of times were referred to. This being the case, there is, in the inter-stratification referred to, evidence that increases the probability that the Gospel must have been written before the year 70. There is another incidental item of evidence that leans and leads toward the same conclusion. Why should the evangelist (chap. Xv. 21) particularize the fact that Simon of Cyrene was the father of Alexander and Rufin 1 Obviously because Alexander and Rufus were living at the time when the Gospel was published. Simon himself seems to have been deceased. His identity is remembered by means of his surviving sons. He would probably be in middle life, or beyond it, when he undertook his journey to the city of his fathers to celebrate the passover. But it was the beginning of days to him; and not to himself only, it would appear, but to all his household. His sons became men of mark in the Christian circle. It would, however, be quite improbable and unnatural to go forward to a period near the close of the century for the time of their prominence. A period before the destruction of Jerusalem is far more likely to have been the season when they were conspicuous. At all events, we could not, with the least shadow of probability, pass the terminating decades of the first century and go over into the second. (j. Morison, D.D.)
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