“All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. The birth-pains metaphor communicates the relationship between the preliminary signs and the end: the disturbances of verses 6–7 are the early contractions, not the delivery. The birth pains metaphor also communicates the certain outcome: the painful process will produce something new.
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