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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
And lest the disciples should think that troubles and sorrows would hinder the preaching of the Gospel, the Lord says that "the Gospel must first be preached among all nations," and only then would Jerusalem be given over to desolation. And that the Gospel was indeed preached everywhere before the destruction of Jerusalem, hear Paul: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth," he says, "and their words to the ends of the world" (Rom. 10:18). …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Matthew adds: And then shall the end come. (Matt. 24:14) Mark, however, by the word first means before the end come.
Bede
And the Gospel of God must first be preached to all nations. This is confirmed by Ecclesiastical histories, in which it is reported that all the apostles, long before the destruction of the province of Judea, were dispersed throughout the entire world to preach the Gospel, except James son of Zebedee, and James the brother of the Lord, who were the first in Judea to shed their blood for the word of the Gospel. …
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