Matthew 24:29

“For “the very heaven shall be rolled together as a scroll;” nay, it shall come to nothing along with the earth itself, with which it was made in the beginning.” — editor's note: Isa. xxxiv. 4; Matt. xxiv. 29; 2 Pet. iii. 10; Rev. vi. 14.

“The Gospel also says, The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 29.

“And He shall send His angels with a great trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from the heights of heaven, even into the farthest bounds thereof.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 4–31.

“How could He not know the day, Who hath declared both the season of Judgment to come, and the cause?” — editor's note: See S. Matt. xxiv. 22, 29; Ps. xcvi. 13; xcviii. 10.

Chapter LXXVII.—Of the Harmony Subsisting Between the Three Evangelists in Their Narratives of the Discourse Which He Delivered on the Mount of Olives, When the Disciples Asked When the Consummation Should Happen.…

“For even the expression of Scripture, that “the stars shall fall from heaven,” not to mention that a different interpretation is much preferable, rather shows that the heavens themselves shall remain, if the stars are to fall from them.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 29.

“The sun shall be turned into blood and the moon shall not give her light, signs of the consummation of all things.” — editor's note: Basil seems to be confusing Joel ii. 31 and Matt. xxiv. 29.

“Then ‘the very powers of the heavens shall be shaken,’and the manifestation of my coming shall imitate lightning that appears at once to all.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 29.

“At least, when He was minded to express the connection of time, He added, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days,”but here not so, but, “then,” not meaning what should follow straightway after these things, but what should be in the time, when these things were to be done, of which He was about to speak.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiv. 29.

As soon as the Lord has fortified the believers against the arts of Antichrist and his ministers, by shewing that His coming would be public, He proceeds to shew the order and method of His coming.

By the tribulation, He means the times of Antichrist and the false Prophets; for when there are so many deceivers, the tribulation will be great. But it shall not extend through any great length of time. For if for…

The darkening of the sun, the failing of the moon, and the fall of the stars, indicate the glories of His coming.

One will say, As at the breaking out of great conflagrations, great darkness is at the first caused by the smoke, so when the world shall be consumed by fire, which shall be kindled, even the great luminaries shall…

These things, therefore, shall not come to pass by any diminution of light, for in another place we read that the light of the sun shall be sevenfold; but by comparison with real light, all things shall seem dim.

But nothing hinders our supposing that the sun and moon with the other stars shall for a time lose their light, as we know did the sun at the time of the Lord’s passion; as Joel also says, “The sun shall be turned…

“By the powers of heaven,” we understand the bands of the Angels.

Very fitly shall they be shaken and dismayed, seeing so mighty a change being wrought, their fellow-servants punished, and the universe standing before a terrible tribunal.

But as, at the dispensation of the Cross, the sun was eclipsed, and darkness was spread over the earth; so when the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven, the light of the sun, moon, and stars, shall fail, as…

But because the sun will be darkened, the cross would not be seen, if it were not far brighter than the rays of the sun. That the disciples might not be ashamed, and grieve over the cross, He speaks of it as a sign,…

Rightly does He say, “the tribes of the earth,” for they shall mourn who have no citizenship in heaven, but are written in earth. [Jer 17:13]

Morally, one may say that the sun, which shall be darkened, is the Devil, who shall be convicted in the end of the world, that whereas he is darkness, he has feigned himself to be the sun; the moon, which seems to…

Or, the Church is the sun, moon, and stars, to which it is said, “Fair as the moon, bright as the sun. Then shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,” [Song of Songs 6:10] because in that…

He adds this, that having heard of the cross, they should not now imagine a similar degradation.

The first and most apparent meaning of this is of that time when He shall come to judge the quick and the dead in His body — that body in which He sits at the right hand of the Father, in which He died and rose again…

Therefore shall they see with the bodily eyes the Son of Man, coming in human shape, “in the clouds of heaven,” that is, on high. As at the transfiguration, a voice came out of the cloud, so when He shall come again…

But because the Scriptures are to be searched, and we are not to content ourselves with the surface of them, let us look closely at what follows, “When ye see all these things come to pass, know that he is near even…

Or He comes every day “with great power” to the mind of the believer in the clouds of prophecy, that is, in the Scriptures of the Prophets and the Apostles, who utter the word of God with a meaning above human…

Matthew 24:29 and Mark 13:24 share the same wording (12 words).

Matthew 24:29 and Mark 13:25 share the same wording (11 words).

Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:29–30 (5) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 24:29–30 (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:29–30 (2) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:29–30 (2) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:29–30 (3) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Origen on Matthew 24:29–30 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 34.

Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 24:29–30 (3) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 24:29–30 (Catena Aurea).

Matthew 24:29 takes up the words of Isaiah 13:10 (9 words in common).