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Verse	Translation	Text
Mt 24:8	King James	All these are the beginning of sorrows.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The beginning of sorrows - Far heavier calamities are yet to come before the end.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

The beginning of sorrows - Far heavier calamities are yet to come before the end.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
All these are the beginning of sorrows - Ωδινων, travailing pains. The whole land of Judea is represented under the notion of a woman in grievous travail; but our Lord intimates, that all that had already been mentioned were only the first pangs and throes, and nothing in comparison of that hard and death-bringing labor, which should afterwards take place. From the calamities of the nation in general, our Lord passes to those of the Christians; and, indeed, the sufferings of his followers were often occasioned by the judgments sent upon the land, as the poor Christians were charged with being the cause of these national calamities, and were cruelly persecuted on that account.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

All these are the beginning of sorrows - Ωδινων, travailing pains. The whole land of Judea is represented under the notion of a woman in grievous travail; but our Lord intimates, that all that had already been mentioned were only the first pangs and throes, and nothing in comparison of that hard and death-bringing labor, which should afterwards take place.

From the calamities of the nation in general, our Lord passes to those of the Christians; and, indeed, the sufferings of his followers were often occasioned by the judgments sent upon the land, as the poor Christians were charged with being the cause of these national calamities, and were cruelly persecuted on that account.

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