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Jan 5, 2023 · Answer. At the end of Matthew 23, as Jesus excoriates the scribes and Pharisees for their behavior, He says, “Look, your house is left to you desolate” (verse 38). Jesus spoke this prophecy regarding the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. There is a twofold meaning of the temple being left desolate or abandoned.
It had been the house of God, but He, as represented by His Son, was now leaving it for ever. It was their house now, not His. We must remember that the words were spoken as our Lord was "departing from the Temple" ( Matthew 24:1 ), never to reappear there.
Jan 23, 2016 · 1. Christ was now departing from the temple, and never came into it again, but by this word abandoned it to ruin. They doted on it, would have it to themselves; Christ must have no room or interest there. “Well,” saith Christ, “it is left to you; take it, and make your best of it; I will never have anything more to do with it.”
Like a building abandoned and empty, there will be nothing left able to prevent disaster. These words echo those of the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 12:7), speaking about Israel's prior experiences with judgment.
Septuagint, ἐν οἴκοις ὑμῶν κοιλοστάθμοις, "your vaulted houses," or, as St. Cyril explains, "houses whose doorposts were elaborately adorned with emblems and devices." They had naught of the feeling of David (2 Samuel 7:2), "I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains."
Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’.
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The sentence is, indeed, more impressive without it: “Behold your house is abandoned to your care: those who would have saved you giving up further effort”. What will happen left to be imagined; just what ἔρημος expresses—desolation.
