Mark 13:7

πολέμους : first pseudo-Messiahs preaching national independence; then, naturally, as a second σημεῖον, wars, actual or threatened (ἀκοὰς πολ.). μὴ θροεῖσθε : good counsel, cheerful in tone, laconic in expression = be not scared; they must happen; but the end not yet. The disconnected style, no γὰρ after δεῖ ([120] [121]), suits the emotional prophetic mood. τὸ τέλος, the crisis of Jerusalem.

[120] Codex Sinaiticus (sæc. iv.), now at St. Petersburg, published in facsimile type by its discoverer, Tischendorf, in 1862.

[121] Codex Vaticanus (sæc. iv.), published in photographic facsimile in 1889 under the care of the Abbate Cozza-Luzi.