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Luke 21:22

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

For these will be days of vengeance, so that what is written may be fulfilled, especially in the book of the prophet Daniel (Dan. 9:26-27).

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Western Saints

Bede

And these are the days of vengeance, that is, the days exacting vengeance for our Lord's blood.

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Bonaventure

Third, regarding the judgment of divine vengeance, he adds: Because these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. Now the Lord decreed to destroy Jerusalem in vengeance for the blood of Jesus Christ and of his Prophets; hence Matthew 23: "That upon you may come all the just blood that has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just even to the blood of Zechariah. …

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