Luke 21:21

οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ. This expression again most clearly proves what was the near horizon of this Prophecy.

εἰς τὰ ὄρη. The Christians, in consequence of “a certain oracular utterance” (Euseb. H. E. III. 5), or an angel-warning (Epiphan. Haer. I. 123), but more probably in consequence of this warning, fled, before the siege, out of Judaea, to the little Peraean town of Pella, among the Transjordanic hills. The verse, as Theophylact says, is a warning to the Christians that the battlements of Jerusalem will not be strong enough to protect them.

ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς. ‘Of her,’ i.e. Jerusalem.

ἐν ταῖς χώραις. ‘In the fields,’ Luke 12:16; or, perhaps, in the provinces.