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Immediately (eutheōs). This word, common in Mark’s Gospel as euthus, gives trouble if one stresses the time element. The problem is how much time intervenes between “the tribulation of those days” and the vivid symbolism of Mat 24:29. The use of en tachei in Rev 1:1 should make one pause before he decides. Here we have a prophetic panorama like that with foreshortened perspective. The apocalyptic pictures in Mat 24:29 also call for sobriety of judgment. One may compare Joel’s prophecy as interpreted by Peter in Act 21:16-22. Literalism is not appropriate in this apocalyptic eschatology.