Mark 13:25

Mar 13:25. Ἔσονται ἐκπίπτοντες, shall be falling) A metaphor from a flower, Jas 1:11. [The flower thereof falleth.]

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Mar 13:25 . οἱ ἀστέρες , etc., the stars shall be in process of falling (one after the other) ἔσονται with πίπτοντες instead of πεσοῦνται in Mt. αἱ δυνάμεις , etc.: the powers in heaven = the powers of heaven (Mt.) = the host of heaven (34:4), a synonym for the stars.

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And then he shall send his angels,.... The ministers of the Gospel to preach it, and plant more churches among the Gentiles, since that at Jerusalem was entirely broken up:

and shall gather together his elect; that is, he the son of man, or Christ, shall gather them by the ministry of his servants; or "they shall gather them", as the Ethiopic version reads; and as Beza says it is read in a certain copy: these ministers shall be the means of gathering such whom God has chosen from all eternity, to obtain salvation by Christ, out of the world, and unto Christ, and into a Gospel church state: even

from the uttermost part of the earth, to the uttermost part of the heaven; be they where they will, on earth, and under the whole heavens; See Gill on Mat 24:31.

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25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

Ver. 25. {See Trapp on "Mat 24:29"}

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And the stars shall be falling from heaven (esontai ek tou ouranou piptontev) and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken. In the great events of the creation recorded in Genesis 1 the sun and the moon and the stars did not show their light until that period which is called the fourth day. So in the end of the world, the sun and the moon and the stars are represented as withdrawing their light, perhaps figuratively, but perhaps also literally, in the course of some of the unknown physical changes which shall accompany the winding up of the present dispensation. To this agree the next words, "the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken." The powers may here mean those great unseen forces of nature by which the universe is now held in equipoise. When the Creator wills it, these powers shall be shaken. (See Job_26:11, "The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof;" see also Isa_34:4, "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. As the end of the world approaches, the elements will quiver and tremble.

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25. ἔσονται ἐκ τ. οὐρανοῦ ([2962][2963][2964][2965] rather than τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἔσονται ([2966][2967][2968]).

[2962] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911.

[2963] Codex Alexandrinus. 5th cent. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and afterwards presented by him to King Charles I. in 1628. In the British Museum. The whole Gospel. Photographic facsimile, 1879.

[2964] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but perhaps a little later than א. In the Vatican Library almost since its foundation by Pope Nicolas V., and one of its greatest treasures. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1889.

[2965] Codex Ephraemi. 5th cent. A palimpsest: the original writing has been partially rubbed out, and the works of Ephraem the Syrian have been written over it; but a great deal of the original writing has been recovered; of Mark we have Mar 1:17 to Mar 6:31, Mar 8:5 to Mar 12:29, Mar 13:19 to Mar 16:20. In the National Library at Paris.

[2966] Codex Regius. 8th cent. An important witness. At Paris. Contains Mar 1:1 to Mar 10:15; Mar 10:30 to Mar 15:1; Mar 15:20 to Mar 16:20, but the shorter ending is inserted between Mar 16:8 and Mar 16:9, showing that the scribe preferred it to the longer one.

[2967] Codex Oxoniensis. 9th cent. Contains Mark, except Mar 3:35 to Mar 6:20.

[2968] Codex Sangallensis. 9th or 10th cent. Contains the Gospels nearly complete, with an interlinear Latin translation. The text of Mark is specially good, agreeing often with CL. At St Gall.

25. ἔσονται … πίπτοντες. Analytical future, as in Mar 13:13; “the stars will be continually falling.” Cf. Luk 5:10; Luk 17:35; Luk 21:24.

αἱ δυνάμεις … σαλευθήσονται. In all three. Isaiah (Isa 34:4) has these phenomena in reverse order; τακήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν … καὶ πάντα τὰ ἄστρα πεσεῖται. Cf. Isa 40:26. Neither here nor in 1Co 15:40 are the heavenly bodies regarded as animated; the δυνάμεις in Eph 1:21 and 1Pe 3:22 are different, being akin to angelic powers.

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25.] ἔσονται π. (= πεσοῦνται Matt.), Mark’s usage. Our Evangelist omits the mourning of the tribes of the earth, and the seeing the sign of the Son of Man.

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The stars of heaven shall fall. A rendering which falls very far short of the graphic original : oiJ ajsterev esontai ejk tou oujranou piptontev : the stars shall be falling from heaven. So Rev., thus giving the sense of continuousness, as of a shower of falling stars.

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