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But before all these things (pro de toutōn pantōn). In Mar 13:8; Mat 24:8 these things are termed “the beginning of travail.” That may be the idea here. Plummer insists that priority of time is the point, not magnitude.
Bringing you (apagomenous). Present passive participle from apagō, an old verb to lead off or away. But here the participle is in the accusative plural, not the nominative like paradidontes (present active participle, delivering you up), agreeing with humas not expressed the object of paradidontes, “you being brought before or led off.” “A technical term in Athenian legal language” (Bruce).