Luke 21:22 (WEB)
For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Fathers and councils · 22
Augustine of Hippo
“For they all introduce it in their narratives, and that, too, in the same order.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 3-xxv. 46; Mark xiii. 4–37; Luke xxi. 7–36.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Let us make our Head, not the earthly Jerusalem, but the heavenly City; not that which is now trodden under foot by armies, but that which is glorified by Angels.” — editor's note: Luke xxi. 20–24.
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Tertullian
“Now, when He goes on to say that “all these things must needs come to pass,” what does He represent Himself to be?” — editor's note: Compare, in Luke xxi., verses 9, 22, 28, 31–33, 35, and 36.
Read the whole comment“Marcion also erased of chap. xxi. the first eighteen verses, as well as verses 21 and 22, on account of this clause, “that all things which are written may be fulfilled;” xx. 16 was…” — the author cites it
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 15–22; Mark xiii. 14–20; Luke xxi. 20–23.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
Hitherto our Lord had been speaking of those things which were to come to pass for forty years, the end not yet coming. He now describes the very end itself of the desolation, which was accomplished by the Roman…
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By the desolation of Jerusalem, He means that it was never again to be set up, or its legal rites to be reestablished, so that no one should expect, after the coming siege and desolation, any restoration to take…
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These words of our Lord, Luke has here related to shew, that the abomination of desolation which was prophesied by Daniel, and of which Matthew and Mark had spoken, (Mat. 24, Mark 13.) was fulfilled at the siege of…
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For the Jews thought that the abomination of desolation took place when the Romans, in mockery of a Jewish observance, cast a pig’s head into the temple.
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Now our Lord, foreseeing that there would be a famine in the city, warned His disciples in the siege that was coming, not to betake themselves to the city as a place of refuge, and under God’s protection, but rather…
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The ecclesiastical history relates, that all the Christians who were in Judæa, when the destruction of Jerusalem was approaching, being warned of the Lord, departed from that place, and dwelt beyond the Jordan in a…
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And before this, Matthew and Mark said, And let him that is on the housetop not come down into his house; and Mark added, neither enter therein to take any thing out of his house; in place of which Luke subjoins, And…
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But how, while the city was already compassed with an army, were they to depart out? except that the preceding word “then” is to be referred, not to the actual time of the siege, but the period just before, when…
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But where Matthew and Mark have written, Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes, Luke adds more clearly, And let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto, for these be the…
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And these are the days of vengeance, that is, the days exacting vengeance for our Lord’s blood.
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Then Luke follows in words similar to those of the other two; But woe to them that are with child, and them that give suck in those days; and thus has made plain what might otherwise have been doubtful, namely, that…
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He says then, Woe to them that nurse, or give suck, as some interpret it, whose womb or arms now heavy with the burden of children, cause no slight obstacle to the speed of flight.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
But some say that the Lord hereby signified the devouring of children, which Josephus also relates.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
He next assigns the cause of what he had just now said, For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. For the miseries that took hold of them were such as, in the words of Josephus, no…
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For so in truth it was, that when the Romans came and were taking the city, many multitudes of the Jewish people perished in the mouth of the sword; as it follows, And they shall fall by the edge of the sword. But…
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Which indeed the Apostle makes mention of when he says, Blindness in part is happened to Israel, and so all Israel shall be saved. (Rom. 11:25.) Which when it shall have gained the promised salvation, hopes not…
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Now mystically, the abomination of desolation is the coming of Antichrist, for with ill-omened sacrilege he pollutes the innermost recesses of the heart, sitting as it is literally in the temple, that he may claim to…
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Bede on Luke 21:20–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 21:20–24 (2) (Catena Aurea).