Expository_, after
citing many meanings attached to the word, says: "In Matthew 24:34 'this
generation shall not pass (viz. the Jewish race, of which the generation
in Christ's days was a sample in character; compare Christ's address to
the "generation," 23:35, 36, in proof that "generation" means at times
the whole Jewish race) till all these things be fulfilled'--a prophecy
that the Jews shall be a distinct people still when He shall come
again."

FOOTNOTES:

[1150] Matt. 24:3-51; Mark 13:3-37: Luke 21:5-35. Compare P. of G.P.,
Joseph Smith, 1.

[1151] Mark 13:11; compare Matt. 10:19, 20; Luke 12:11, 12; 21:14, 15.

[1152] Luke 21:19; compare Doc. and Cov. 101:38.

[1153] Dan. 9:27.

[1154] Note 1, end of chapter.

[1155] Note 2, end of chapter.

[1156] Matt. 24:27; compare Luke 17:22-24.

[1157] The "body," as that of the Church, is rendered "carcase" in both
authorized and revised versions. For the application of the figure--of
eagles gathering about a carcase--to the assembling of scattered Israel,
see P. of G.P., Joseph Smith, 1:27, where we read: "so likewise shall
mine elect be gathered from the four quarters of the earth." Among Bible
scholars, a favorite interpretation of the passage, "For wheresoever the
carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together," is that Christ
was likening unto eagles (revised version "vultures") the angels that
shall come with Him to execute judgment upon mankind, and unto a carcase
the corruption of sin. See Matt. 24:28; compare Luke 17:37.

[1158] Matt. 24:35; compare 5:18; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33; compare 16:17;
see also Heb. 1:10, 11; 2 Peter 3:7-10; Rev. 21:1. Note 5, end of
chapter.

[1159] This is Mark's version; in the parallel passage Matt. 24:36, the
words "neither the Son" are not found in the King James text, but do
appear in the revised version. See Note 3, end of chapter.

[1160] Page 441.

[1161] Matt. 24:45-51; Mark 13:34-37; Luke 21:34-36, compare 12:35-48.

[1162] Matt. 25:1-13.

[1163] Compare Rev. 21:2, 9; 22:17; see also Matt. 9:15; John 3:29.

[1164] See Parable of the Sower, Matt. 13:5, 6, 20, 21; page 282 herein.

[1165] Note 4, end of chapter.

[1166] Compare John 10:14.

[1167] Doc. and Cov. 45:56-59; see also 63:53, 54.

[1168] Matt. 25:14-30.

[1169] Luke 19:12-27; see also page 508 herein.

[1170] Margin, revised version.

[1171] 1 Cor. 12:4; study the entire chapter.

[1172] Luke 12:48.

[1173] Luke 19:22; compare