Famines and pestilences.—The mention of the latter is, as far as the best manuscripts are concerned, a feature peculiar to Saint L…

Someone says, perhaps, "All this we have experienced countle times; yet Christ has not come." Exactly so, for these signs are not sent to satisfy o…

St. Gregory the Great: God foretells the woes that will precede the destruction of the world, so that they may be less disturbi…

Warning against deception. The opening of the discourse resembles, with several exceptions, that in Mt 24 and Mk 13. Luke does not mention that Jes…

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines and pestilences (See Gill on Matthew 24:7).

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With much curiosity, those around Christ ask about the time when the great desolation would occur. He answers with clarity and fullness, to the ext…