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Yet they are not to despair when the catastrophe draws near, and all kinds of rumours of war and oppression are abroad. The repetition of הַשְּׁמוּעָה expresses the correlative relation, - this and that report; cf. Ewald, §360, c. The suffix in אַחֲרָיו has a neuter sense; the word means "afterwards" (= אַחֲרֵי זֹאת, Job 42:16). וְחָמָס בָּאָרֶץ is also to be taken as dependent, grammatically, on וּבָא: "and when a deed of violence is committed in the land, one ruler (rises up) against the other." These words presuppose not merely a pretty long duration of the war, but also rebellion and revolution, through which Babylon is to go to ruin. In this sense they are employed by Christ for describing the wars and risings that are to precede His advent; Mat 24:6; Mar 13:7; Luk 21:9.