Mark 13:20

The merciful shortening of the days, out of regard to the elect, is here directly ascribed to God. Mt. uses the passive construction, where vide as to the idea of shortening and the reason. τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς οὓς ἐξελέξατο, the elect whom He elected, recalling “the creation which God created” in Mark 13:19; but more than a mere literary idiosyncrasy, emphasising the fact that the elect are God's elect, whom He loves and will care for, and whose intercessions for others He will hear.