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MARK 13:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Mark 13:15Mark 13:17
“And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.”
Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak — the same urgency applied to field workers: do not even go back for the most essential piece of clothing. The cloak is the last possession worth retrieving — the instruction to leave it behind communicates that no possession justifies delay.

Church Fathers on Mark 13:16

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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