Luke 21:23 (WEB)
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.
Fathers and councils · 27
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“In Luke it is thus read, “There shall be great distress upon the earth, and wrath upon this people, and they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations.” [Luke 21:23]” — the author cites it
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“And then, as if speaking concerning the people, he says, “For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.” — editor's note: Ibid. xxi. 23, 24.
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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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Tertullian
“…“Let us eat, and drink, and marry, for to-morrow we shall die;” not reflecting that the “woe” (denounced) “on such as are with child, and are giving suck,” will fall far more heavily and bitterly in the “universal shaking” of the entire world than it did in the devastation of one fraction of Judæa.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 19; Luke xxi. 23. Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. v.
Read the whole comment““More easily, therefore, may heaven and earth pass away—as also the law and the prophets—than that one tittle of the Lord’s words should fail.”” — editor's note: Luke xvi. 17 and xxi. 23.
Read the whole comment“For why did the Lord foretell a “woe to them that are with child, and them that give suck,” except because He testifies that in that day of disencumbrance the encumbrances of children will be an inconvenience?” — editor's note: Luke xxi. 23; Matt. xxiv. 19.
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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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Aphrahat
“Josiah said:—Great is the wrath that shall come upon this people; and Jesus said:—There shall come wrath upon this people, and they shall fall by the edge of the sword.” — editor's note: Luke xxi. 23, 24.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Et rursus: “Væ prægnantibus et lactantibus in illis diebus.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 19; Mark xiii. 17; Luke xxi. 23.
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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.
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But some say that the Lord hereby signified the devouring of children, which Josephus also relates.
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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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Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:15–22 (2) (Catena Aurea).
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Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:15–22 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:15–22 (2) (Catena Aurea).
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Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:15–22 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:15–22 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:15–22 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Church History III.7.
Cited together in Church History III.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.33.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in To His Wife I.5.
Cited together in Church History III.7.
Cited together in Church History III.7.
Parallel passages
Mark 13:17 and Luke 21:23 share the same wording (9 words).
Quotes
Luke 21:23 takes up the words of Amos 6:1 (8 words in common).
