Mark 13:19

ἔσονται γὰρ αἱ ἡμέραι, etc., for (not in those days, but) those days (themselves) shall be a tribulation. So we speak of “evil days,” and in Scotland of the “killing times”. οἵα οὐ γέγονεν, etc.: a strong statement claiming for the crisis of Israel a unique place of tragic distinction in the whole calamitous experience of the human race, past and to come. οἵα τοιαύτη, pleonastic, cf. 1 Corinthians 15:48; 2 Corinthians 10:11.