11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
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Fearful sights - See Matthew 24:7.
Fearful sights - What these were the reader will find in detail on Matthew 24:7 (note).
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines and pestilences,.... See Gill on Matthew 24:7.
and fearful sights; or "terrible things"; whether heard, or seen, as dreadful thunderings, and lightnings; and a voice heard in the temple, saying, let us go hence; and an idiot that went about several years together, saying, woe to the people, woe to the city, &c. a flame was seen in the temple, and the doors of it opened of themselves:
and great signs shall there be from heaven; as comets and blazing stars, a flaming sword, or a comet like one, hanging over Jerusalem, and armies in the air engaged against each other (b). The Syriac version adds, "and great winters there shall be"; that is, very long and cold; and so the Persic version, "and winter, and cold, shall be protracted".
(b) Vid. Joseph. de Bello Jude, l. 6. c. 5.
Fearful sights and signs from heaven - Of which Josephus gives a circumstantial account.
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