Luke 21:20
Douay-Rheims
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army; then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.
Bede the Venerable
Hitherto our Lord had been speaking of those things which were to come to pass for forty years, the end not yet coming. He now describes the very end itself of the desolation, which was accomplished by the Roman army; as it is said, And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed, &c.
Source details
A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 21:20-24
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.