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b Acts vi 13 διὰ Δανιῆλ τοῦ προφήτου, ἑστὸς ἐν "τόπῳ ἁγίῳ: 16. τότε of ἐν τῇ “loudaia φευγέτωσαν ἐπὶ] τὰ ὄρη - 17. ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ δώµατος μὴ καταβαινέτω2 dpai τι» ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας 18. καὶ ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ μὴ ἐπιστρεψάτω ὀπίσω dpa τὰ μάτια" 10. οὖαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις 20. προσεύχεσθε δὲ ἵνα μὴ γένηται ἡ
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αὐτοῦ. ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις.
les in BDAE al. be the true reading.
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lypse, which this passage is by some supposed to form a part of, it might be expected to bear a similar meaning, a technical sense for a stereotyped ex- pression. Not so on the lips of Jesus, who was not the slave of phrases but their master, using them freely. Then as employed by Him it must point to some broad, easily recognisable fact, which His followers could at once see and regard as a signal for flight; a fact not merely shocking religious feeling but threatening life, which He would have no disciple sacrifice in a cause with which they could have no sympathy. Then finally, true to the prophetic as distinct from the apocalyptic style, it must point to something revealing pro- phetic insight rather than a miraculous foresight of some yery special circum- stance connected with the end. This consideration shuts out the statue of Titus or Caligula or Hadrian (Jerome), the erection of a heathen altar, the atrocities perpetrated in the temple by the Zealots, etc. Luke gives the clue (νετ. 20). The horror is the Roman army, and the thing to be dreaded and fied from is not any religious outrage it may perpetrate, but the desolation it will inevitably bring. That is the emphatic word in the prophetic phrase.—épypacews is genitive of apposition = the horror which consists in desolation of the land. The appearance of the Romans in Palestine would at once become known to all. And it would be the signal for flight, for it would mean the end near, inevitable and terrible.—év téw@ ἁγίῳ, one naturally thinks of the temple or the holy city and its environs, but a '' holy place” in the prophetic style might mean the holy Jand. And Jesus can hardly have meant that disciples were to wait till the fatal hour had come.—é avayw-
The plural is pointlesa.
ώσκων, etc.: this is most likely an interpolated remark of the evangelist bidding his readers note the corres- pondence between Christ’s warning word and the fact. In Christ’s own mouth it would imply too much stress laid on Daniel’s words as a guide, which indeed they are not. In Mark there is no reference to Daniel, therefore the re- ference there must be to the gospel (on this verse consult Weiss-Meyer).
Ver. 16. ot ἐν τῇ ἸΙ., those in Judaea who have no part in the struggle, with special reference to disciples of Jesus. There would naturally be some in the city, therefore the counsel to fly must refer to a point of time antecedent to the commencement of the siege.—émi τὰ pn, to the mountains outside of Judaea, {.ε., east of the Jordan; general as befits prophetic speech. The actual place of refuge was Pella, as we learn from Eusebius, H. E., iii., 5, 3.—Vv. 17, 18 vividly express the urgency of the flight. — 6 ἐπὶ τ. δ., etc., the man on the house top must fly without stopping to get articles of value in the house down the outside stair and off.—ra ἐκ τ. oik., elliptical = the things in his house, from his house.—6 ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ, let the man in the field, on hearing the fatal report, fly in his tunic, not returning home for his upper robe. “Νο man works in his mantle, the peasant leaves it at home, now as in Christ’s time”’ (Furrer, Wanderungen, p. 117).—VV. 19, 20 describe the pathos of the situation: woe to women with child, they cannot get rid of their burden; and to women nursing, they cannot abandon their children as men can their money or their clothes (διὰ τὸν δεσμὸν τῆς φύσεως, Euthy. Cf. Chrys. and Theophy.). A touch this worthy of Jesus, sign mark of genuineness.— Ver. 20. προσεύχεσθε,