The exposition of Dionysius Syrus written above 900 years since on the evangelist St. Mark / translated by Dudley Loftus ... anno 1672 ; wherewith are bound up several other tracts of the same authour, and an ancient Syriack scholia on the four evangelists, as also some Persian, Armenian, and Greek antiquities, translated as aforesaid : the titles whereof are set down immediately after the Epistle to the reader, with refereuce [sic] to the several pages where they are.
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The exposition of Dionysius Syrus written above 900 years since on the evangelist St. Mark / translated by Dudley Loftus ... anno 1672 ; wherewith are bound up several other tracts of the same authour, and an ancient Syriack scholia on the four evangelists, as also some Persian, Armenian, and Greek antiquities, translated as aforesaid : the titles whereof are set down immediately after the Epistle to the reader, with refereuce [sic] to the several pages where they are.
Author
Dionysius Exiguus, ca. 540.
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Dublin :: Printed for Joseph Wilde ...,
1672.
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Bible. -- N.T. -- Mark -- Commentaries.
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"The exposition of Dionysius Syrus written above 900 years since on the evangelist St. Mark / translated by Dudley Loftus ... anno 1672 ; wherewith are bound up several other tracts of the same authour, and an ancient Syriack scholia on the four evangelists, as also some Persian, Armenian, and Greek antiquities, translated as aforesaid : the titles whereof are set down immediately after the Epistle to the reader, with refereuce [sic] to the several pages where they are." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36047.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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CHAP. XXIV.
VVHen therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation. That is to say, the en∣sign of the Eagle which Caius Caesar commanded that they should set up upon the Temple.
And unless those dayes were shortned. That is to say, Jerusalem was then besieged but One hundred and sixteen dayes by the Romans after the crucifying of our Lord, viz. from the 25th of April, to the 9th of August.
Then if one shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ. This he saith of Antichrist, to wit, a lying Christ; and he giveth charge that they should not believe in him, for it is Satan who enters into a deceiving Jew, and work∣eth feigned miracles, and before the latter coming of our Lord shall for a little while appear.
The sign of the Son of man in the clouds. That is, a Cross shining in the Air.
With a Trumpet. In some of the Greek copies, with the voice of a Trumpet.
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Heaven and Earth shall pass away. Passing away, he doth not call a total annihilation or privation, but mu∣tation, like this, He passed away from evil, and did that which was good.
Who then is. The word who, is not here to be taken interrogatively, but approbatively.
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