The stars shall be falling (ο αστερες εσοντα πιπτοντες). Periphrastic future indicative, εσοντα, future middle indicative and πιπτ…

Theophylact of Ohrid: After the Lord had finished all that concerned Jerusalem, He now speaks of the coming of Antichrist, …

Verses 24–27 form a unit and relate to the End. They are set off from the previous verses by the strong adversative alia (“but”; GK 247). Whereas t…

And the stars of heaven shall fall
The Jewish Rabbins and doctors, who fell off from the written word, and compiled …

The disciples had confused the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world. This mistake Christ set right, and showed that the day of Christ'…