Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
These are the beginnings of sorrows--"of travail-pangs," to which heavy calamities are compared. (See Jeremiah 4:31, etc.). The annals of TACITUS tell us how the Roman world was convulsed, before the destruction of Jerusalem, by rival claimants of the imperial purple.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Luke 21:10
Revelation 17:11
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