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MATTHEW 24:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 24:19Matt 24:21
“But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:”
Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. The prayer for favorable flight conditions: winter (when travel is most difficult) and the Sabbath (when the distance one may travel is limited by Sabbath regulations) are the conditions to pray against. The prayer instruction communicates that the community's response to the coming tribulation includes both practical preparation and intercessory prayer.

Church Fathers on Matthew 24:20

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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