NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 24:20

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Pray that your flight will not be in the winter nor on a Sabbath,

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Verse 20. In the winter: an inconvenient season for flying away.—Or on the sabbath, when it was lawful to travel only about a mile. Witham.—Pray to God that you may be enabled to escape those evils, and that there may be no impediment to your flight. Estius in dif. loca.

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