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Selected Verse: Mark 13:19 - New American Standard Bible©
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Mr 13:19 |
New American Standard Bible© |
"For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will. |
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King James |
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be--Such language is not unusual in the Old Testament with reference to tremendous calamities. But it is matter of literal fact that there was crowded into the period of the Jewish war an amount and complication of suffering perhaps unparalleled; as the narrative of JOSEPHUS, examined closely and arranged under different heads, would show. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
affliction
Tribulation.
Compare (Mat 24:21).
See "Tribulation"; (Psa 2:5); (Rev 7:14). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
The creation which God created
Note the peculiar amplification, and compare Mar 13:20, the elect or chosen whom he chose. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| In those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation - May it not be doubted, whether this be yet fully accomplished? Is not much of this affliction still to come? |
14 I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
5 Then He will speak to them in His anger And terrify them in His fury, saying,
21 "For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
20 "Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.