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Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
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Verse 22. No flesh: a Hebraism for no person; denoting that no one would have escaped death, had the war continued. Witham.—All the Jews would have been destroyed by the Romans, or all the Christians by Antichrist. Maldonatus.—From this place, Jesus Christ foretells the coming of Antichrist, and forewarns Christians of latter ages, to guard all they can against seduction.
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