Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 13:19
For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.The tribulation that befell Jerusalem was as great as any disaster ever known, some eleven hundred thousand of the population being butchered by the sword.[40] But even so great a disaster is only a prophecy of the far greater thing that shall come at the End. Cranfield agreed that "The thought here is eschatological, the final tribulation... read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 13:19
affliction = tribulation. As in Mark 13:24 . Quoted from Daniel 12:1 . was not = has not been the like. from the beginning of the creation which God created. Note the emphasis of this peculiar amplifica tion, giving the Divine condemnation of "Evolution". Compare in Mark 13:20 , "the chosen whom He chose". See note on John 8:44 . God. App-98 . neither = nor by any means. Greek. ou me. App-105 . be = come to pass. read more