But before all these things (προ δε τουτων παντων). In Mr 13:8; Matthew 24:8 these things are termed "the beginning of …

Before all these.—The special indication that the sufferings from persecution should precede those from wars, famines, an…

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brough…

St. Gregory the Great: Because the things that have been prophesied do not arise from the injustice of the one who inflicts the…

Encouragement during persecution. In its content this section bears some similarity to Mk 13:9–13 and also the account of the sending out of the Tw…

But before all these