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Standing where he ought not (hestēkota hopou ou dei). Mat 24:15 has “standing in the holy place” (hestos en topoi hagiōi), neuter and agreeing with bdelugma (abomination), the very phrase applied in 1 Maccabees 1:54 to the altar to Zeus erected by Antiochus Epiphanes where the altar to Jehovah was. Mark personifies the abomination as personal (masculine), while Luk 21:20 defines it by reference to the armies (of Rome, as it turned out). So the words of Daniel find a second fulfilment, Rome taking the place of Syria (Swete). See Mat 24:15 for this phrase and the parenthesis inserted in the words of Jesus (“Let him that readeth understand”). See also Mat 24:16-25 for discussion of details in Mar 13:14-22.