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εἰ μὴ Κύριος ἐκολόβωσεϊ τὰς ἡμέρας, οὐκ ἂν ἀλλὰ διὰ τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς οὓς ἐξελέξατο, ἐκολό-
γένηται. 20. καὶ ἐσώθη πᾶσα odpé - βωσε τὰς ἡμέρας.
Χριστός, ἢ idov,? ἐκεῖ, μὴ πιστεύσητε.ὸ
21. Καὶ τότε ἐάν τις ὑμῖν εἴπῃ, ᾿Ιδού. ὧδε 6 22. ἐγερθήσονται yap ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται, καὶ δώσουσι * σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα, 23. ὑμεῖς 24. Αλλ ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις, μετὰ τὴν θλίψιν ἐκείνην, ὁ ἥλιος σκοτισθήσεται, καὶ
πρὸς τὸ ἀποπλανᾶν, et δυνατόν, καὶ 5 τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς. 5 2 8 .6 , een ΄ δὲ βλέπετε: ἰδού, προείρηκα ὑμῖν πάντα.
ἡ σελήνη οὐ δώσει τὸ Φφέγγος αὐτῆς, 25. καὶ ot ἀστέρε τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἔσονται ἐκπίπτοντες,! καὶ at δυνάµεις at ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς
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σαλευθήσονται.
ἐρχόμενον ἐν νεφέλαις μετὰ δυνάµεως πολλῆς καὶ δόξης. καὶ τότε ἀποστελεῖ τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ,»
ἐκλεκτοὺς αὐτοῦ ὃ
ἄκρου οὐρανοῦ.
1 εκολ. Κ. in NBL.
26. καὶ τότε ὄψονται τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
2η,
Δ > , a καὶ ἐπισυνάξει τοὺς
3 - δι : ee 4 ~ o εκ των τεσσάρων ανεμ.ων, απ σοσκρου yysS εως
2ΜΦΕΙ, have ιδε both times; for η before second ιδε B has και, which has been changed into η (as in Mt.) in DAZ al. ; omitted in SQL (Tisch., W.H.).
ὄπιστευετεῖηῃ ΝΑΒΟΡΙΔ.
ἁδωσουσι in ΝΔΑΒΟΙΙΣ al. ποιησουσι in D (Tisch.).
5 Omit και NBD (from Mt.).
6 Omit ιδου BL cop. aeth. (Tisch., W.H.). 7 εσονται εκ τ. ουρ. πιπτοντες SYBC (Tisch., W.H.).
8 Omit first αυτου BDL (Tisch., W.H.), DL second, which is found in NBCA. Tisch. omits both. W.H. have second in brackets, omitting first.
«εν days,” and in Scotland of the “killing times ”.—ota οὐ Ὑέγονεν, etc.: a strong statement claiming for the crisis of Israel a unique place of tragic distinc- tion in the whole calamitous experience of the human race, past and to come.— οἵα τοιαύτη, pleonastic, cf. x Cor. xv. 48, 2 Cor. x. 11.—Ver. 20. The merciful shortening of the days, out of regard to the elect, is here directly ascribed to God. Mt.uses the passive construction, where vide as to the idea of shortening and the τεᾶςοη.-- τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς οὓς ἐξελέξατο, the elect whom He elected, recalling ‘‘the creation which God created’’ in νετ. 19; but more than a . mere literary idiosyncrasy, emphasising the fact that the elect are God’s elect, whom He loves and will care for, and whose intercessions for others He will hear.—Ver. 22. Ψψευδόχριστοι, evdo- προφῆται, false Christs, and false prophets; again, as in ver. 6, here as there without, not within, the Church; political Messiahs, in ver. 6 spoken of as
the prime cause of all the calamities, here as at the last hour promising deliverance therefrom.—mpis τὸ ἀποπλανᾶν, with a view to mislead; the compound verb occurs again in x Tim. vi. 10, in passive. —Ver. 23. ὑμεῖς δὲ, etc., now you look out! 1 have told you all things before- hand; forewarned, forearmed.
Vv. 24-31. The coming of the Son of Man (Mt. xxiv. 29-35, Lk. xxi. 25-33). —Ver. 24. ἀλλὰ, opposes to the false Christs who are not to be believed in, the coming of the true Christ.—éy ἐκείναις τ. ἡμέραις, in those days, for Mt.’s εὐθέως, a vaguer phrase, yet making the parusia synchronise with the thlifsis. —Ver. 25. ot ἀστέρες, etc., the stars shall be in process of falling (one after the other)—écovrat with πίπτοντες in- stead of πεσοῦνται in Mt.—ai δυνάµεις, etc. : the powers in heaven = the powers of heaven (Mt.) = the host of heaven (Is. xxxiv. 4), a synonym for the stars. — Ver. 26. tov tov τ. a.: the Son of Man, not the sign of, etc., as in Mt.:
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