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{The beginning of travail} (arch(8820)odin(936e)). The word means birth-pangs and the Jews used the very phrase for the sufferings of the Messiah which were to come before the coming of the Messiah (Book of Jubilees, 23:18; Apoc. of Baruch 27-29). But the word occurs with no idea of birth as the pains of death ( Ps 18:5 Ac 2:24 ). These woes, says Jesus, are not a proof of the end, but of the beginning. |