Matthew 24:22 Cross References - Mace

²² for unless the time was to be short, very few could escape, but for the sake of the converts the time shall be short.

¹⁴ thus many are called, but few are converted.

²⁴ for there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew such astonishing miracles and prodigies, as to deceive, if that can do it, the very converts themselves.

³¹ and he shall send his messengers, who with the shrill sound of a trumpet, shall gather together his select from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other.

²⁰ so that if the Lord should suffer it to last, no man could escape: but he will not suffer the time to last long, out of regard to his elect.

⁷ and will not God avenge his own elect, who cry to him night and day? will he delay their cause?

¹¹ for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,

²⁵ I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this secret, (for fear you should presume too much on your selves) that blindness has fallen upon a part of Israel, until the time when the Gentiles shall be fully come in. ²⁶ and then all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, "there shall come out of Sion the deliverer, and shall turn away Jacob from his impiety. ²⁷ for this is my covenant with them, that I shall take away their sins." ²⁸ Though they are violently prejudiced against the gospel upon your account: yet they are objects of favour upon the account of their having been chosen out of respect to your fore-fathers. ²⁹ for the divine gifts and vocation are irrevocable. ³⁰ as you in times past did not obey God, yet have now obtained mercy upon the occasion of their disobedience: ³¹ so the Jews are at present incredulous, by reason of the mercy shown to you; so that they themselves are now to be pitied.

¹⁰ I therefore bear with every thing for the sake of the converts, that they may obtain that salvation, which Jesus Christ has procur'd us, even eternal glory.