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MATTHEW 24:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 24:16Matt 24:18
“Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:”
Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house. The urgency of the flight: the person on the flat Palestinian rooftop should not come down to take anything from inside. The housetop-to-mountains flight without stopping communicates the extreme urgency of the departure.

Church Fathers on Matthew 24:17

As above He had obscurely intimated the end of Jerusalem; He now proceeds to a more plain announcement of it, citing a prophecy which should make them believe it.

Chrysostom · 4th century

That, 'Let him that readeth understand,' is said to call us to the mystic understanding of the place. What we read in Daniel is this; 'And in the midst of the week the sacrifice and the oblation shall be taken away, and in the temple shall be the abomination of desolations until the consummation of the time, and consummation shall be given upon the desolate.' [Dan 9:27, septuagint]

Jerome · 4th century

Luke, in order to shew that the abomination of desolation foretold by Daniel had reference to the time of the siege of Jerusalem, repeats these words of our Lord, 'When ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed by armies, then know ye that its desolation draweth nigh.' [Luke 21:20]

Augustine · 4th century · Ep. 199, 31
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