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Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
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A Command for Urgent Escape
Commentators unanimously agree this verse conveys extreme urgency. For first-century Christians, it was a literal command to flee immediately at the sight of the Roman armies, without even pausing to retrieve an outer garment left at the field's edge. Several sources note that Christians historically heeded this warning and escaped the destruction of Jerusalem by fleeing to towns like Pella.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Return back to take his clothes. His clothes which, in working, he had laid aside; or which in fleeing he should throw off as an …
In the field (εν τω αγρω). The peasant worked in his time and left his mantle at home then as now.
19th Century
Anglican
To take his clothes — It is better translated in the singular as his cloak. The man would be working in the field with th…
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Baptist
This portion of our Savior’s words appears to relate solely to the destruction of Jerusalem. As soon as Christ’s disciples saw the abomination …
The instructions Jesus gives to his disciples about what to do in view of v.15 are so specific that they must be related to the Jewish War. The dev…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Neither let him which is in the field Ploughing, or sowing, or employed in any other parts of husbandry, or rural busines…
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The disciples had asked concerning the times, "When should these things be?" Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, "What sha…
13th Century
Catholic
Having already related the destruction, in this part He relates that the consummation will come, and He gives a sort of introduction.
And:
