them which are in Judea This expression again most clearly proves what was the near horizonof this Prophecy.

flee to the mountains 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 thiswarning, fled, before the siege, out of Judaea,to the little Peraean town of Pella, among the Transjordanic hills.

in the midst of it Rather, her, i.e. Jerusalem.

in the countries Rather, in the fields.

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