Mar 13:14. Ὅπου οὐ δεῖ, where it ought not) Language adapted to His hearers’ modes of thought. The Jews’ mode of thinking was, that it ought not. And indeed it ought not, in so much as the place was the holy place; so, “speaking things which they ought not,” 1Ti 5:13. Comp. also Jer 49:12. [It was from that place that the Romans invaded the city.-V. g.]