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MATTHEW 24:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 24:13Matt 24:15
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. The universal proclamation of the gospel as the condition preceding the end: the testimony to all nations must be complete before the end comes. The mission to all nations that Matthew 28:19 will commission is here identified as the prerequisite for the end. The end waits for the mission's completion.

Church Fathers on Matthew 24:14

For what desert so many evils are to be brought upon Jerusalem, and the whole Jewish province the Lord shews, when He adds, 'Then shall they deliver you up, &c.'

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century

Or otherwise; The disciples when they heard these things which were spoken of Jerusalem might suppose that they should be beyond reach of harm, as though what they now heard was the sufferings of others, while they themselves should meet with nothing but prosperous times, He therefore announces the grievous things which should befal them, putting them in fear for themselves.

Chrysostom · 4th century

But how should the people of Christ be hated by the nations who dwelt in the uttermost parts of the earth? But one may perhaps say, that in this place all is put hyperbolically for many. But this that He says, 'Then shall they deliver you,' presents some difficulty; for before these things the Christians were delivered to tribulation. To this it may be answered, that at that time the Christians shall be more delivered to tribulation than ever.

Origen · 3rd century
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