Matthew 24:23. Then. Sufficiently indefinite to favor any or all of the interpretations of the passage. During the subsequent period, is exact enough.

If any man shall say to you, etc. This indicates that the disciples then expected that the second Advent would immediately follow; and was first of all a caution against impostors. But while such did arise in the first century, the details; of the following verses point to something further.

Believe it (or ‘him') not. This phrase furnishes no argument against the visible personal coming of Christ, which seems to be taken for granted throughout.

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