Matthew 24:20

"But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!"

Key Reflection

This passage likely refers to a time of great distress, where even pregnant women and new mothers would be at risk. The spiritual meaning suggests that these individuals would face particular hardships or danger during the tribulation described, highlighting the severity and universality of the suffering anticipated.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 20. But pray ye, etc. The destruction was certainly coming. It could not be prevented. Yet it was right to pray for a mitigation of the circumstances, that it might be as mild as possible. So we know that calamity is before us; sickness, pain, and bereavement, and death, are in our path; yet though we know that these things must come upon us, it is right to pray that they may come in as mild a manner as may be consistent with the will of God. We must die; but it is right to pray that the pains of our dying may be neither long nor severe. In the winter. On account of the cold, storms, etc.

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