29: ευθεως δε μετα την
θλιψιν των ημερων εκεινων ο ηλιος σκοτισθησεται και η σεληνη ου
δωσει το φεγγος αυτης και οι αστερες πεσουνται απο του ουρανου και
αι δυναμεις των ουρανων σαλευθησονται
29: Immediately after the
tribulation of those
days shall the sun be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens
shall be shaken:
29: And immediately after
the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the
moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven
and the powers of heaven shall be moved.
Immediately...
This is to be understood in the same sense of James and John immediately leaving their father to follow Jesus (Matthew 4:22) or when Jesus spoke to the leper, "be thou clean," and immediately his leprosy was cleansed (Matthew 8:3). Matthew indicates not only the short amount of time involved but the significance of that which follows.
...after the tribulation of those days...
This seems to be that tribulation which Jesus describes beginning in v15, "When you therefore shall see..." and of which He then says in v21, "For then shall be great tribulation..." It is the time immediately after that which is noted in v15 and those events of v21 that Jesus now describes.
...shall the sun be darkened...
Commentators disagree on whether to take the images here as
descriptive of actual physical events or to understand them as
metaphor.
Those who believe that the images are not to be taken as actual physical events argue that they are often used by the sacred writers to denote any great calamities. As the darkening of the sun and moon, and the falling of the stars would be an inexpressible calamity, so any great catastrophe, any overturning of kingdoms or cities, or dethroning of kings and princes, is represented by the darkening of the sun and moon, and by some terrible convulsion in the elements. Thus the destruction of Babylon is foretold in similar terms, Isa 13:10; and of Tyre, Isa 24:23. The slaughter in Bozrah and Idumea is predicted in the same language, Isa 34:4. See also Isa 50:3, Isa 60:19, Isa 60:20, Ezek 32:7, Joel 3:15.
To the description in Matthew, Luke has added, Lk 21:25 there should be "distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts falling them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming upon the earth." All these are figures of great and terrible calamity. The roaring of the waves of the sea denotes great tumult and affliction among the people, Perplexity means doubt, anxiety; not knowing what to do to escape. Men's hearts failing them for fear, or by reason of fear. Their fears would be so great as to take away their courage and strength.
...and the moon shall not give her light,...
...and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of
the heavens shall be shaken:
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