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.

Ambrose of Milan

A.D. 339–397 Patristic

For the Jews thought that the abomination of desolation took place when the Romans, in mockery of a Jewish observance, cast a pig’s head into the temple.

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A.D. 397 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 21:20-24

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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