Augustine of Hippo, on Mark 13:3

“And as he sat on the mount of Olivet over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him apart:”

“(Epist. cxcix. 9.) In answer to the disciples, the Lord tells them of things which were from that time forth to have their course; whether He meant the destruction of Jerusalem which occasioned their question, or His own coming through the Church, (in which He ever comes even unto the end, for we know that He comes in His own, when His members are born day by day,) or the end itself, in which He will appear to judge the quick and the dead.”

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