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Chap. XXI.

 

He commendeth the poore widow for her two mites, above al. 5. Having said that the Temple shal be quite destroyed, 7. he foretelleth first many things that shal goe before, 20. then a signe also when it is neere, after which shal come the destruction itself in most horrible manner, without hope of restitution, until al Nations of the Gentils be gathered into his Church in the very end of the world. 25. And then what signes shal come of the last day, terrible to the world, 28. but comfortable to us of his Church, 34. so that we be alwayes watchful.

 

Mr. 12, 14.AND beholding, he saw them that did cast their guifts into the treasurie, rich persons. ²And he saw also a certaine poore widow casting two brasse mites. ³And he said: Verily I say to you, that this poore widow hath cast more then al. ⁴For al these of their aboundance have cast into the guifts of God: but she ″ of her penurie, hath cast in al her living that she had.

⁵And certaine saying of the Temple that it was adorned with goodly stones and donaries, he said: ⁶These things which you see, Mt. 24, 1. Mar. 13, 1.
Tuesday night* the dayes wil come wherein ^[1] there shal not be left a stone upon a stone that shal not be destroyed. ⁷And they asked him, saying: Maister, when shal these things be: and what shal be the signe when they shal begin to come to passe? ⁸Who said: See you be not seduced for ^[2] many wil come in my name, saying that I am he: and the time is at hand, goe not therefore after them. The Ghospel upon SS. Vincentius and Anastasius day. Jan. 22. And for many other Martryrs.⁹And when you shal heare of warres and seditions, be not terrified: these things must first come to passe, but the end is not yet by and by. ¹⁰Then he said to them: Nation shal rise against Nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom. ¹¹And there shal be great earth-quakes in places, and pestilences and famines, and terrours from Heaven, and there shal be great signes. ¹²But before al these things they wil ^[3] lay their hands upon you: and persecute you delivering you into Synagogues and prisons, drawing you to Kings and Presidents for my name. ¹³And it shal happen unto you for testimonie. ¹⁴Lay up this therfore in your hartes, not to premeditate how you shal answer. ¹⁵For I wil give you mouth and wisdom, which al your adversaries shal not be able to resist and gainesay. ¹⁶And you shal be delivered up of your parents and brethren, and kinsemen and freinds: and they wil put to death of you. ¹⁷And you shal be odious to al men for my name: ¹⁸and a haire of your head shal not perish. ¹⁹In your patience you shal possesse your soules.✠

²⁰And when you shal see Hierusalem compassed about with an armie, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand. ²¹Then they that are in Jewrie, let them flee to the mountaines: and they in the middes thereof, let them depart: and they in the countries, let them not enter into it. ²²For these are the dayes of vengeance, that al things may be fulfilled that are written. ²³But woe to them that are with child and that

1. This was fulfilled, 40. yeares after the death of Christ, the 19. of August, being the very month and day wherein the Babylonians burnt it: from the first building thereof by Salomon 1130. yeares: from the re-edifying thereof under Cyrus 639 yeares. Josep. de bel. Jud. li. 7. cap. 10.
2. Many false prophets and Heretikes. See An. Mt. 24. Mar. 13.
3. Great persecution of Catholike men.