Matthew 24:8

“All these are the beginning of sorrows, etc.] They were only a prelude unto them, and forerunners of them; they were only some foretastes of what would be, and were far from being the worst that should be endured. These were but light, in comparison of what befell the Jews, in their dreadful destruction. The word here used, signifies the sorrows and pains of a woman in travail. The Jews expect great sorrows and distresses in the times of the Messiah, and use a word to express them by, which answers to this, and call them, jyçmh ylbj, “the sorrows of the Messiah”; ylbj, they say f1371, signifies the sorrows of a woman in travail; and the Syriac version uses the same word here. These they…”

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“24:8 first of the birth pains: Intense anguish is expected just prior to Jesus’ second coming (see also 24:29-31; Isa 13:8; 26:17; Jer 4:31; 6:24; Mic 4:9-10).”

“Lev 26:18-29; Deu 28:59; Isa 9:12, Isa 9:17, Isa 9:21, Isa 10:4; Th1 5:3; Pe1 4:17, Pe1 4:18 Matthew 24:9”