“When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains …” (Mk. 13:14; Mt. 24:15; Lk. 21:20) Often when I ...
Bagpipes skirled as Canadian soldiers paraded “somewhere in Belgium” last week. While silk-hatted Belgian functionaries looked on, Britain’s Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery pinned decorations ...
With wartime rhetoric adopting a deeply eschatological colour, the "abomination of desolation" has resurfaced to evoke the prophesied ruin of the Temple. Applying the gravity of this phrase to the ...