For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
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Gill's Exposition
For nation shall rise against nation,.... The nations of the world one against another, and the Romans against the Jews, and the Jews against them:
and kingdom against kingdom; which is a synonymous…
Adam Clarke
The beginnings - For αρχαι, many MSS. and versions have αρχη, the beginning, singular.
Our Lord Jesus, in reply to their question, sets himself, not so much to satisfy their curiosity as to direct their consciences; leaves them still in the dark concerning the times and seasons, which…
Cambridge Bible
the beginnings of sorrows rather, of birth-pangs. The word only occurs in four places in the N. T. Here; in the parallel, Mat 24:8; in Act 2:24, "having loosed the pains(rather the pangs) of death;"…
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