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Mat_24:16 ff. Apodosis down to Mat_24:18.
οἱ ἐν τ . Ἰουδ .] means those who may happen to be living in the country of Judaea (Joh_3:22), in contradistinction to Jerusalem with its holy place, the abominations in which are to be the signal for flight.
μὴ καταβαινέτω , κ . τ . λ .] Some have conceived the idea to be this: “ne per scalas interiores, sed exteriores descendat,” Bengel (Grotius, Wetstein); or: let him flee over the roofs (over the lower walls, separating house from house, till he comes to the city wall, Michaelis, Kuinoel, Fritzsche, Paulus, Winer, Kaeuffer). Both views may be taken each according to circumstances.
τὰ ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ ] common attraction for τὰ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας . See Kühner, I. 474, and ad Xen. Mem. iii. 6. 11; Winer, p. 584 [E. T. 784].
ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ ] where, being at work, he has no upper garment with him.
People will have to flee to save their lives (Mat_24:22); not according to the idea imported by Hofmann: to escape the otherwise too powerful temptation to deny the Lord. This again is decisively refuted by the fact that, in Mat_24:16-19, it is not merely the disciples or believers who are ordered to flee, but the summons to do so is a general one. What is said with reference to the flight does not assume an individualizing character till Mat_24:20.