Luke 21:20

κυκλουμένην, in course of being surrounded; pres. part., but not necessarily implying that for the author of this version of Christ's words the process is actually going on (J. Weiss Meyer). Jesus might have so spoken conceiving Himself as present. στρατοπέδων, camps, or armies, here only in N.T. This takes the place in Lk. of the βδέλυγμα in the parallels, avoided as at once foreign and mysterious. ἡ ἐρήμωσις α., her desolation, including the ruin of the temple, the subject of inquiry: when besieging armies appear you know what to look for.