Matthew 24:22

And unless those days should be made few, no flesh could be saved. But on account of the elect those days shall be made few.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

In Context

21for then shall be great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor shall ever be.

23Then if any one shall say to you: Lo! here is the Christ, or there; believe it not.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:14For many are called, but few chosen.

Matthew 24:31And he will send his angels with a trumpet of great voice, and they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Luke 18:7and will not God avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, though he delay long in respect to them?

Romans 11:25For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery―lest you be wise in your own conceit―that blindness has happened to Israel in part, till the full number of the Gentiles shall have come in.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:5-32

Awful Predictions. 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall… Read the whole commentary →

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