Of that day and hour no man knoweth.

Now is Daniel's abomination of desolation; the generation passeth and the prophecy is fulfilled.

Jerusalem is perishing." Seeing the wave of panic sweep over her, he put out a soothing hand.
"Yet, do not fear.

For such as you the Redeemer died; for your kind the Kingdom of Heaven is built, and the King whom the earth did not receive is for ever Lord of it." The veiled reference to the tragedy which Philadelphus had recounted stood out with more prominence than the promise in his words.
"Whom the earth did not receive ?" she repeated.

"O prophet, as thou boasteth truthful lips and a hoary head, tell me what hath befallen us." "Hear it not as a calamity," he said reassuringly.