Mark — Chapter 13
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Verse 4
4. When shal these things be?) Arch-heretikes be false-Christs and false-Prophets. The miseries which did fal before the destruction of the Temple and citie of Hierusalem, were a resemblance of the extreme calamitie that shal befal before the later day at the time of Antichrist: whereupon Christ speaketh indifferently of both.
Verse 6
6. I am he.) As before the destruction of Hierusalem, divers Seducers arose, and called themselues Christes, promising the People deliuerance from the feares and dangers, they were in of forraine souldiars; so shal there come many towards the end of the world and make themselues Christs & Authours of Sects, and shal gaine many Disciples; as in plaine words foloweth in this chapter v. 22. There shal rise vp False-Christs, and False-Prophets &c.
Verse 14
14. The abomination of desolation.) Caluinisme tendeth to the abomination of desolation. No heresie doth so properly and purposely tend to this abomination of desolation *which by Antichrist shal be archieued, as this Caluinisme: which taketh away with other Sacraments and external worship of God, the very sacrifice of Christes Body and bloud, which being taken away (as S. Cyprian saith**) no religion can remaine. *Hyppol. li. de Antichristo. **Cyp. de Cæn. Do. nu. 1.
Verse 22
22. Signes and wonders.) False-Christes and False-Prophets be seducers, who in the later day by the power of the Diuel shal seeme to worke wonders, and yet men must not beleeue them; Much lesse these, which for their false faith can not shew so much as one false miracle.