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D. A. Carson is a premillennial futurist whose comment on this subject in The Expositor's Bible Commentary, volume 8 (Zondervan, 1984) is significant in that it demonstrates that the preterist take on the term in question does not spring from any preterist presupposition but is rather the true and natural sense of the biblical text:
"This generation" (...) can only with the greatest difficulty be made to mean anything other than the generation living when Jesus spoke. Even if "generation" by itself can have a slightly larger semantic range, to make "this generation" refer to believers in every age, or the generation of believers alive when eschatological events start to happen, is highly artificial.
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