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MARK 13:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:”
Let no one on the housetop go down or enter the house to take anything out — the urgency of the commanded flight is absolute: no delay for any reason. The housetop instruction communicates maximum urgency — do not even descend to the interior of the house to retrieve anything. The speed of the required departure communicates the imminence and severity of what is coming.

Church Fathers on Mark 13:15

Matthew says, standing 'in the holy place;' but with this verbal difference Mark has expressed the same meaning; for He says 'where it ought not' to stand, because it ought not to stand in the holy place.

Augustine · 4th century · de Con Evan, ii, 77

When we are challenged to understand what is said, we may conclude that it is mystical. But it may either be said simply of Antichrist, or of the statue of Caesar, which Pilate put into the temple, or of the equestrian statue of Adrian, which for a long time stood in the holy of holies itself. An idol is also called abomination according to the Old Testament, and He has added 'of desolation' because it was placed in the temple when desolate and deserted.

Bede · 8th century

Or He means by 'the abomination of desolation' the entrance of enemies into the city by violence.

Theophylact · 11th century
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