Mark 13 Meter

 

 

	Verse	Notes	Syllable	Cumulative	Diff. / Comments
1	Καὶ ἐκπορευομένου αὐτοῦ ἐκ [ἀπὸ] τοῦ ἱεροῦ λέγει αὐτῷ εἷς τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ·		24	24	psi ms has apo; Mark writes 24 years to Mill start
	διδάσκαλε, ἴδε ποταποὶ [οἱ] λίθοι καὶ ποταπαὶ [αἱ] οἰκοδομαί. [του ιερου]		19	43	ms 565 has hoi and hai; Beza D05 has tou ierou Mark reverses Matt24's meter order.
2	καὶ ὁ Ἰησοῦς [αποκριθεις] εἶπεν αὐτῷ·		8	51	many mss incl. MT, TR add apokritheis in some way.
	[ου] βλέπεις ταύτας τὰς μεγάλας οἰκοδομάς;		12	63	mss theta+#565, add ou; Beza adds amen legw humein hoti, which sevensin distance to the next one in Mark. 1st dateline theme, 63 years after Judaea became a province.
	[ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμεῖν ὅτι]
	οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ ὧδε λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον ὃς οὐ μὴ καταλυθῇ.		28	91	2nd dateline theme, 91 yrs post- 2nd Temple or Herod Rebuilding starts, plays on 91 in Matt, Luke, Paul; note 112 embedded.
3	Καὶ καθημένου αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ ὄρος τῶν ἐλαιῶν κατέναντι τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐπηρώτα αὐτὸν		28	119	yrs after Caesar crossed Rubicon (parallel civil war);
	κατ᾽ ἰδίαν [ὁ] Πέτρος καὶ Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἰωάννης καὶ Ἀνδρέας·		18	137	Beza, 565 and theta add ho fronting Petros. Since it's 69AD and Peter just died, ho shouldn't front ONLY Petros, but all of them.
4	εἰπὸν ἡμῖν, πότε ταῦτα ἔσται καὶ τί τὸ σημεῖον ὅταν μέλλῃ ταῦτα συντελεῖσθαι πάντα;		28	165
5	ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς [αποκριθεις] ἤρξατο λέγειν αὐτοῖς·		11	176	many mss incl. MT, TR add apokritheis in some way
	βλέπετε μή τις ὑμᾶς πλανήσῃ·		10	186
6	πολλοὶ [γὰρ] ἐλεύσονται ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί μου		14	200	many mss incl. MT, TR add gar
	λέγοντες ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι, καὶ πολλοὺς πλανήσουσιν.		16	216	SATIRE: 753+30+217=1000 which apostates were claiming during this very time.
7	ὅταν δὲ ἀκούσητε πολέμους καὶ ἀκοὰς πολέμων, μὴ θροεῖσθε·		20	236
	δεῖ [γὰρ] γενέσθαι,   ἀλλ᾽ οὔπω τὸ τέλος		10	246	many mss incl. MT, TR add gar
8	ἐγερθήσεται γὰρ ἔθνος ἐπ᾽ ἔθνος καὶ βασιλεία ἐπὶ βασιλείαν,		22	268
	[καὶ] ἔσονται σεισμοὶ κατὰ τόπους,		10	278	many mss incl. MT, TR add kai. Diff is 42.
	[καὶ] ἔσονται λιμοί· [καὶ ταραχαί]	Donatists.	10	288	Tags Luke 21:12. mss incl. MT, TR add kai, taraxai
	ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων ταῦτα.	Nicaea; Mark tags Matt24:9a 'birthing' New Rome, Nicaea & Constantine kills Licinius; then wife & son, prophecy switch to East.	7	295	Some add de panta arche, move tauta in front of de Value Tags Matt24:9a.
9	Βλέπετε δὲ ὑμεῖς ἑαυτούς· παραδώσουσιν [γὰρ] ὑμᾶς εἰς συνέδρια		20	315	Diff is 196  many mss incl. MT, TR add gar
	καὶ εἰς συναγωγὰς  δαρήσεσθε		10	325	mss theta, 565, 700 add kai variantly.
	καὶ ἐπὶ ἡγεμόνων καὶ βασιλέων σταθήσεσθε ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς.		27	352	Tags Matt24:10c.
10	καὶ εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη πρῶτον δεῖ κηρυχθῆναι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον.		19	371	Diff=56.  Jerome ends Gospel commentary, 398.
11	καὶ ὅταν [ἄγ]ἄγωσιν ὑμᾶς παραδιδόντες, μὴ προμεριμνᾶτε		19	390	some mss incl. MT TR use subj.aorist for agw.
	[μηδε μελετατε] τί λαλήσητε,		5	395	mss incl. MT TR add these words.
	ἀλλ᾽ ὃ ἐὰν δοθῇ ὑμῖν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τοῦτο λαλεῖτε·		20	415
	οὐ γάρ ἐστε ὑμεῖς οἱ λαλοῦντες	Effective end W. Rome Empire  when Val III killed (455 AD)	10	425	Point is, Constantinople wouldn't help.
	ἀλλὰ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον.		9	434	Diff is 63, how apt. Tags Eph1:14 & Daniel 9:24.
12	καὶ παραδώσει ἀδελφὸς ἀδελφὸν εἰς θάνατον	East won't help West, which dies. Sets tone of rest of history.	15	449	Ouch: start θάνατον, Odovacer takes 'brother' Rome.
	καὶ πατὴρ τέκνον,		5	454
	καὶ ἐπαναστήσονται τέκνα	=Ostrogoths take over Italy, nominally vassals ('kids') to Byzantium, who aided them.	9	463	Talk about betrayal!
	ἐπὶ γονεῖς καὶ θανατώσουσιν αὐτούς·	Byzantine-Persia Wars (peace in 506)	12	475
13	καὶ ἔσεσθε μισούμενοι ὑπὸ πάντων διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου.		18	493	Jeru Patriarch starts temple to MARY atop Holy of Holies!
	ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας εἰς τέλος οὗτος σωθήσεται.	Cold, famine in 530s.  Nika riots in 532, J's Code in 534.	15	508	Mark ties 490+24 at to Bdelugma, below.
14	Ὅταν δὲ ἴδητε τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως	Justinian makes Church wholly dependent on his will, 553.	15	523	@end, Justinian anathematizes supporters of Three Chapters.
	[τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ Δανιὴλ τοῦ προφήτου]  ἑστηκότα ὅπου οὐ δεῖ,	famine, empty treasury, Hagia Sophia roof crashes	8	531	mss incl. MT TR use these words variantly
	ὁ ἀναγινώσκων νοείτω,	Justinian dies at ὁ ἀναγιν then Avars/Slavs invade Balkans	9	540
	τότε οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ φευγέτωσαν εἰς τὰ ὄρη,		16	556
15	ὁ [δὲ] ἐπὶ τοῦ δώματος μὴ καταβάτω [εις την οικιαν]		13	569	mss incl. MT TR use last phrase variantly
	μηδὲ εἰσελθάτω ἆραί τι		8	577	Big Byz-Persian war goes off/on til 629AD.
	ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ,	Start alliance twixt Persians & Avars to 'get' Constantinople, besieged end ἐπιστρεψάτω, below.	7	584	560+24, same pre-Church recon style. Tags Matt24:19b
16	καὶ ὁ εἰς τὸν ἀγρὸν [ὢν] μὴ ἐπιστρεψάτω εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω ἆραι τὸ ἱμάτιον αὐτοῦ.		26	610	mss +MT TR add hwn. Arabs take Egypt @ton; Jeru, end himation.
17	οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις.		24	634	Muslim civil war starts post-θηλαζούσαις & so do 'themes'.
18	προσεύχεσθε δὲ ἵνα μὴ γένηται [ἡ φυγὴ ὑμῶν] χειμῶνος·	Arab siege of Const. start mid-γένηται	14	648	mss incl. MT TR use these words variantly
19	ἔσονται γὰρ αἱ ἡμέραι ἐκεῖναι θλῖψις		13	661
	οἵα οὐ γέγονεν τοιαύτη ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς κτίσεως ἣν ἔκτισεν ὁ θεὸς		22	683	Arabs invade Spain 711, Constantinople, 717.
	ἕως τοῦ νῦν καὶ οὐ μὴ γένηται.	2ndArab Siege of Const. @ νῦν starts 'Reconstruction' phase, per historians.	10	693	Diff=259.  Leo III victor re 717 siege. Iconoclasm starts.
20	καὶ εἰ μὴ ἐκολόβωσεν κύριος τὰς ἡμέρας, [ἐκείνας] οὐκ ἂν ἐσώθη πᾶσα σάρξ·		23	716	In West, Pepin asks P.Zach re King @end.
	ἀλλὰ διὰ τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς οὓς ἐξελέξατο ἐκολόβωσεν τὰς ἡμέρας.		23	739	Pope crowns Pepin King @eklektous. (Get the pun?)
21	Καὶ τότε ἐάν τις ὑμῖν εἴπῃ·	Constantine V dies 775. Seems complimentary.	9	748	His son Leo IV dies 780, age 30. Very bad, after that.
	ἴδε ὧδε ὁ χριστός, [ἢ] ἴδε ἐκεῖ, μὴ πιστεύετε·	Satire & chiliasm: 787, Irene restores icons, monks, hermits.	16	764	Anaphoric Center Byz mss add he, subst. idou for ide
	ἐγερθήσονται γὰρ ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται	Charlemagne crowned HRE @ γὰρ	16	780	Tags Matt24:26 & Luke 21:27b, same event too.
	καὶ δώσουσιν σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα πρὸς τὸ ἀποπλανᾶν, εἰ δυνατόν, [καὶ] τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς.		25	805	many mss incl. MT, TR add kai . Diff is 112.
23	ὑμεῖς δὲ βλέπετε· [ἰδοὺ] προείρηκα ὑμῖν πάντα.		14	819	some mss add idou, but then shouldn't have Blepete.
24	Ἀλλὰ ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις μετὰ τὴν θλῖψιν ἐκείνην	@τὴν, yet-pagan Rus sack Constantinople	18	837	monasteries.  3 years later they convert to Xtianity.
	ὁ ἥλιος σκοτισθήσεται, καὶ ἡ σελήνη οὐ δώσει τὸ φέγγος αὐτῆς,		22	859
25	καὶ οἱ ἀστέρες ἔσονται ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ πίπτοντες,		15	874
	καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις αἱ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς σαλευθήσονται.		15	889	Diff is 70.
26	καὶ τότε ὄψονται τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενον ἐν νεφέλαις		21	910	Tags Matt24:30 @974, Luke 21:27@770, +21:32.
	μετὰ δυνάμεως πολλῆς καὶ δόξης.		11	921
27	καὶ τότε ἀποστελεῖ τοὺς ἀγγέλους [αὐτοῦ]		12	933	many mss incl. MT TR add autou here
	καὶ ἐπισυνάξει τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς [αὐτοῦ]	Basil II starts his adult reign at ek, next clause.	12	945	Diff is 35. Many mss incl. MT TR also add autou here
	ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων ἀνέμων ἀπ᾽ ἄκρου γῆς ἕως ἄκρου οὐρανοῦ.	@γῆς, Vlad of Rus converts (Prim.Chron)	18	963	Basil II bragged he was doing that, during these yrs.
28	Ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς συκῆς μάθετε τὴν παραβολήν·		14	977	Both Matt24:32 and Luke 21:36 are at 1050 here; words quote Matt.
	ὅταν ἤδη ὁ κλάδος αὐτῆς ἁπαλὸς γένηται καὶ ἐκφύῃ τὰ φύλλα,	(Basil II , (see Chapters 13,16 Skylitzes), dies childless aka ἐκφύῃ on Chanukah 1025. Zoe & Theodora are his nieces, daughters of  his successor brother Constantine VIII, who dies at φύλλα (Chap 17 & here) .  Empire declines from here on.)	21	998	Matt24:31 meter+1, Luke 21 meter -1. In text, Matt24:32/Luke21:36=1071 here; Mark's text quotes Matt.
	[εν αυτη] γινώσκετε ὅτι ἐγγὺς τὸ θέρος ἐστίν·	Contrasting live report on 976-1078AD: click here.	13	1011	Beza and some mss have en autei Matt24:32 is at 1082 here (w/o estin); Luke 21 ends at 1085.
29	οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς, ὅταν ἴδητε ταῦτα γινόμενα,	Plague, hail, & East-West split w papacy @ γινόμενα,	16	1027	Matt24:33; exchanges panta w ginomena
	γινώσκετε ὅτι ἐγγύς ἐστιν ἐπὶ θύραις.	Defeat of Byzantium by Alp Arslan, at end.	14	1041	Decline from here onward.
30	Ἀμὴν [δε] λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι		9	1050	Diff is 105. Though mostly only Wsupps have de, since Mark uniquely uses same amen.de in 14:9, likely he does here, too.  7s end clause w/ 13:2
	οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ ἡ γενεὰ αὕτη μέχρις οὗ ταῦτα πάντα γένηται.		21	1071	1050+21, equals Matt 24:32b and Luke 21:36b.
31	ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ παρελεύσονται, οἱ δὲ λόγοι μου οὐ μὴ παρελεύσονται.		24	1095
32	Περὶ δὲ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης ἢ [τῆς] ὥρας οὐδεὶς οἶδεν,		18	1113	Diff=42. Ties to 1050+63 to recon w Matt24:33. Some mss incl. TR omit tes, subst he w/kai.
	οὐδὲ οἱ ἄγγελοι [οἱ] ἐν οὐρανῷ οὐδὲ ὁ υἱός, εἰ μὴ ὁ πατήρ.		20	1133	BYZ mss incl. MT, TR often add an extra hoi
33	Βλέπετε, [δὲ ουν] ἀγρυπνεῖτε·[καὶ προσεύχεσθε] οὐκ οἴδατε γὰρ πότε ὁ καιρός ἐστιν.		19	1152	Some mss use the variants, incl. MT, TR.
34	Ὡς ἄνθρωπος ἀπόδημος ἀφεὶς τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ	Mark combines 1st 2 Matt25 parables.	16	1167	Really biting, look up BYZ history.
	καὶ δοὺς τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐξουσίαν[καὶ] ἑκάστῳ τὸ ἔργον αὐτοῦ	Latin sack of Constantinople occurs end-1st αὐτοῦ.	20	1187	some mss add kai but it's grammatically wrong.
	καὶ τῷ θυρωρῷ ἐνετείλατο ἵνα γρηγορῇ.		15	1203
35	γρηγορεῖτε οὖν· οὐκ οἴδατε γὰρ πότε ὁ κύριος τῆς οἰκίας ἔρχεται,		23	1226
	ἢ ὀψὲ ἢ μεσονύκτιον ἢ ἀλεκτοροφωνίας ἢ πρωΐ,		20	1246	Diff is 133.
36	μὴ ἐλθὼν ἐξαίφνης εὕρῃ ὑμᾶς καθεύδοντας.		14	1260
37	ὃ δὲ ὑμῖν λέγω πᾶσιν λέγω, γρηγορεῖτε.	Byzantium effectively dies by 1304.	14	1274	1050+224, aka God's reply in Dan9:24-26 Shorthand: God decrees new 490, cliffhanger. Reconciles pre- and post-Church 1050s. Sums Datelines in Mark 1, Matt24,Luke 21,Eph1:3-14,1&2Peter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

ide  v1   Iesous   v2  Blepw  v2  Semeion  v4   Iesous  v5   Blepw  v5  v9   ide   v14  Kurios  v20 

 ide v21a  Christos  v21

  ide  v21b   Semeion   v22  Blepw  v23  ide  v26   Huios   v26   ide   v29   Huios   v32   Blepw   v33   anthrwpos   v34     Kurios   v35

 

Companion pieces which play on Matt24-25 text are:  http://www.brainout.net/Luke21Meter.pdf and this http://www.brainout.net/Mark13Meter.pdf .  They undergo revision also, but those addresses ARE the latest revisions.  Discussion threads on them, are in frankforum.  This doc and its pdf are in draft form, so check there for the latest revisions.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

To quickly assess the time tagged by the words, add 30 to get 'our' AD then look up that year.  Find items that tie to the text, to know what the text references.  Some times it's 'our' year before or after, so look on both sides of the year tagged.  Topic will be related to Bible (God 'appears' through His Word), apostasy, and resulting politics.  When you find the right item, the text here will be so biting, you'll be dumbstruck.  Example: 13:8b, on seismoi, marking the start of the Diocletian persecution.  End clause, Carnuntum, which kicked off the 'earthquake' of the battle of the four teterarchies. Three syllables = years later, Eastern Roman emperor Galerius dies: so no longer 'will be', get the pun?  306AD, there was an earthquake in Israel.  But physical earthquakes are not the focus of  verse.  Remember how Greek lit works: something political must always be euphemised and dramatized with something natural.  Handy way to avoid violating maiestas.

 

For Rome prior to Odovacer, I compiled a chrono chart of weblinks to universities, etc. to cross-reference and describe events Paul tags.  It first has links to the contemporary/university authors, plus then a set of bracketed AD-year links to click on (here) for more specific info. 

 

Mark seems to use classical Greek pronunciation, except for Hebrew names.  He also writes in haste, so variants with extra kai's, gar, etc. in Matt24 or Luke 21, Mark likely omits.  He counts their syllables, then changes the text to derive his own complementary counts.  Sometimes omitting small words or changing tenses, is enough.

 

Mark plays on his own dateline of 24 years to Millennium (first clause), also at its end, which is 1050+224, which is the number of syllables in God's Reply to Daniel (9:24-27), 231, minus that last 7 years of Tribulation.  Clever way to prove yes pre-Trib Rapture is valid.  It would matter a bunch after the 1050 elapsed to know that, as folks from Rome to Kiev misread Daniel 12 to think that 1260 AD would be 'the end'.  Matt24 is written 63 years-to-Mill; Luke 21 was written 35 years 'til the Mill.  All Bible writers dateline their text via formulas of years from a past event and/or years to a future event (both well-known, to set tone of the new writing).  So Mark follows convention. Still 30 AD for the speech itself (so add 30 to all meter numbers to convert to 'our' AD).  So Mark too employs the 63 with dual-entendre: he writes 63 years after Judaea is a province. Equidistance number punning is common to all starts and endings of Bible books and as here, even chapters.  Makes them witty, profound, easy to remember for folks who memorized large bunches of text so they wouldn't have to schlep around, heavy scrolls or codices.

 

Second dateline of 91 is even more provocative, being as Jerusalem is surrounded by armies when Mark writes, Pesach 69 AD.  Otho will soon kill himself,  (April 16, 69, so Pesach was 12 days prior).  Herod's kingship officially began 40 BC, per the Roman Senate.  However he had to fight for it once in Jerusalem, so the clever use of 91 dating back to when Herod HAD consolidated thus started to build his own palace and married Mariamne daughter of the high priest = the 18th year, if you count from 40BC not 37.  Sarcasm is bald: human, all you build up will not have one stone left on another.. just as the text of the story, opens.  Datelines always set text themes.

 

Third dateline (unusual) is 119, tags when Caesar crossed the Rubicon as Otho had just done (the latter went north).  Civil war was in Rome equally at both times, as Mark writes in the Year of the Four Emperors; Vespasian just started his own bid.  Exactly one year after Mark writes, Titus begins final Temple takedown; his dad Vespasian, would become Emperor 8 months after Mark writes.  Perhaps Mark wrote Hebrews (dated to Chanukah, a few days after Vespasian's accession)?

 

In the Matt and Luke texts, syllable-count distances between anaphora (amen legw humin and parousia clauses), and keywords are each divisible by seven.  So too, the highlights here.  The first amen legw humin here is only in the Beza (D05) text, but it sevens and uses hoti in both places, which looks deliberate since the first amen legw humin in Matthew 24 didn't use hoti (on purpose, so the distance are always divisible by 3 or 7).  The very end of the first Matt24 amen legw humin is where Mark (I submit) deliberately adds his first, adding hoti to cause syllables to seven at his second dateline, of 91.  As a result, a clean sevening between both occurrences at 63, 91 and 1050 occurs: the 1050 thus balances to both Luke 21 and Matt24's, as well as to Gen1 (which also ends at 1050).  So the first amen legw humin is not dittography.  It has provably anaphora/choral meaning, given the text.  Look how both 'bookends' concatenate:

 

Believe Me when I tell you that not one stone will be left upon another; this generation will not end until all this has come to pass.

  

Next, playing on Paul's meter in Ephesians 1:3-14, Mark uses anaphora keywords.  Paul played on Matt24 and Luke 21 to craft his, but the satire linking to an Emperor's death was unique to Paul, who uses Emperor deaths to trace the death of Bible interest, which led to Western Rome's downfall.  Mark thus does the same for the East, and he uses 'see' (which requires you be ALIVE) to mark their deaths.  Bitingly.

 

Thus Blepw/ide/semion distances are anaphora keywords, just as Matt24 and Luke 21 SEVEN distances between theirs (i.e., amen, parousia, huios, kurios, numphios).  The distances are doctrinally significant for the events benchmarked, to 'center' on the prophecy's historical nexus via their occurrences (i.e., if a phrase is repeated 5 times, the center is 3rd).  If they seven, it's also likely that totals between are right; any syllable counting errors, offset by the end points.  That narrows the search area for auditing counts.

 

Synonymally, ide (from horaw) is used, and also sevens.  Those references will be interspersed here as ἴδε .  So the reader can track the emperors while he reads, as Daniel did during his meter for his Chapter 9 prayer.  'To prove yes god knows what time it is for Eastern believers keen on relics, magic, 'signs'.  I rarely see (heh) Bible-related events.  Maybe you will.

 

Semeion is an object of sight, so it's a synonym and sevens, as well.

 

v.1, ἴδε syll 29-30, covers 59-60 AD.  Nero kills his mom Agrippina for his own 21st birthday, at the start of 59.  It didn't work the first time, so he dispatched assassins.  Sets the tone: a Medea or Oedipal Byzantine history, follows.  Since Paul centered on the Severan mothers for his anaphora, it certainly makes sense for Mark to start with Nero then newly DEAD when Mark writes, who isn't seeing any beautiful buildings; rather, Rome's own beautimous buildings are threatened.

v.2 Iesous @syll 45-47 and Blepw, syll 52-53, so covers 82-83 AD. Could tag Titus' end (rounding) and/or Domitian start (the good years), like Matt24 text does at its first Blep.  Get the pun? Titus isn't seeing anything anymore, but it was under him that the Temple fell, and when he dies no stone is atop another on Pompeii, either; nor will he see the beautiful buildings Domitian will build to deify him and the dad.  Everyone else sees Domitian in his early piety period (to make himself look good, deifies his family), before he goes wacko as a martinet.  BTW, Mark follows Daniel 9's structure, as Matthew 24-25 did, except Daniel covered the past kings one syllable per year, through his verse 13.  So Mark like Paul, starts with the past, but quickly goes future.  Nero/Titus/Domitian is current, with few years past, when Mark writes: everyone knows who they are.  To list some past, helps readers 'get' your style of wit; then, they read each year's 'news'.  For the test of God, is that what He says, comes true: Deut 18:22.  So now you follow annually, to see that the Word of God is true.  Yet it's not boring.  Everyone loves satire.  Ergo, these anaphora.

v.4  to semeion @syll 150-4, covers 180-83 AD. Aurelius died 180, and his natural son Commodus, made Caesar since age 5, now rules alone.  Matt24:4 benchmarks it with the apokritheis keyword.  (Not sure what to say of Luke 21 yet.) Paul satirized Commodus' 177/78 AD promotion to co-emperor then accession, in Eph1:7 as κατὰ τὸ πλοῦτος τῆς χάριτος αὐτου, given that our boy would become famous for his greed by 183 (end of his good years).  Since Mark's Gospel is all about signs of Christ which people ignore, to link up future Commodus with the deathbed discourse of Christ here as a sign, is wryly apt for a trend of history: 'sign' that all these things are always 'about to be' (μέλλῃ).  Donald Trump is the current iteration of the Commodus 'sign' of greedy Christians politicking, so the Empire goes down. For this is the rise of Ireneaus, then Tertullian, and Origen as their most famous greedy proponent of false doctrine.  This is when the pope myth is born, a device used to combat pagan claims Christianity was new and thus false.  Bible goes right out the window, via these people.

 

v.5 Iesous @syll 166-69 and Blepw, syll 177-179.  Sevens at 179-53.  Runs 207-209 AD, when Septimius Severus became ill, upon arrival in Britain with his quarrelling sons.  So first he sees death of any reconciliation, then they see his death in 211.  Ouch.  Sic transit gloria mundi.  Severus, very deceived, convinces himself that Caracalla won't kill Geta when Daddy's gout ends;  his own wife and her sisters will claim incest in his name, to raise unrelated kids to the purple, 7+ years after Daddy dies.

 

v.9, Blepw syll 296-298.  CENTER of Blepw anaphora: sevens at 298-179 and prior. Spans 209-328 AD, the word running 326-329 AD, like Paul does with his anaphora, except that Paul used Trinity meter.  Again, as did Paul, the Mark text describes what actually happens (persecution, infra-Christian). Constantine killed Licinius 325 despite telling his sister he wouldn't, then killed both his own wife and son Crispus; his mom died in 329, he dedicated Nova Roma in 330, but started building it supposedly four years prior (seems too short).  Lots of Christian fighting, proverbial that you couldn't  have a haircut w/o debate over whether Christ was Divine or merely human.

 

So of course Mark's repackaging of Christ's wording keys off Ephesians 1:11-12, re bringing together under one head, making a first fruits offering, in Mark 13:9-10; cuz first the Gospel must be preached! So Constantine's own death must be satirized -- Paul reserved middle of proelpikotas in Eph1:12 for it, so Mark tags the same death in middle of  παραδώσουσιν here -- C's firstfruit kiddies then kill many of their relatives within 91 days after Dad died; then began warring over whether God was One or Three, coupled with Christian prelates cannibalizing each other; resulted in everyone betraying his brother for a witness:  flaying, extra.

 

v.14, ἴδε syll 511-13, covers 541-43 AD.  Justinian I (wife Theodora). Two Ostragothic kings, Ildibad and Eraric war with Byzantium, die in 541. Next, 542-3 AD, bubonic plague hits; J himself nearly dies from it.  Plotters for his alleged successor, die. Wonder if Justinian noeito'd he built an Abomination temple to mary atop the Holy of Holies 527 AD et seq.  3rd year of Justinian bid to revive Rome Empire, seek alignment with Pope, beats Goths, rejects Three Chapters. In 551, Beirut earthquake takes thousands.

 

v.21, ἴδε  twice and seven apart with ho christos baldly in between, syll 749-50, then 756-7, covers 779-80 then 786-7 AD.  This is the center of the chapter.   One more way to know 'or' isn't between the ides.  Bad news bears Irene, schemes to capitalize on her husband's death, Leo IV (780).  Wash rinse repeat with her kid Constantine VI, cuz now mommy Irene is Regent.  She worms her religious way into the prelates' hearts, so that by the time VI was 16 in 787, she wouldn't yield her regency.  So it's a type of death, but not physical.  Yet.  Meanwhile, much inner death results from venerating all those statues of alleged saints alongside Christ, rather than His Real Book.

 

To get back to Blepw in v.23, the sevening distance is cutely 755 to 811=56.

 

v.22  semeia kai terata @syll 785-91, covers 815-21 AD. Sevens at syll 785-757 in v.21. Terata gets included, as it is the type of 'sign' which makes people marvel and polarize, resulting in controversy between those who believed the wonder, and those who do not.  Since our gal Irene died in 803 AD, it's a result of her.  This one, is Leo V (covered in v.20 and hostile contemporary account in Chapters 1-2, here), who assumed power via coup in 813 over Michael I Rangabe (also covered in v.20).  Leo of course dies violently at the end, on Christmas Day, 820, murdered while in church.  Sign of the times.  All greedy for power like Commodus was, but in the name of God!

 

v.23, Blepw syll 809-811. Sevens blepw-blepw, at 809 (blepw inside the nest, here v. 23) -298 (center blepw outside the nest, v.9) =511, same length as kurios 'nest'. Ends first internal nexus.  Spans 839-841 AD.  Covers Theophilos, son of Michael II (820-829, v.22's τα πρὸς τὸ ἀποπλανᾶν, εἰ δυν, hostile contemporary account in Chapter 3-4 here and v20, largely marked by a 'deceiver' Thomas, who claimed to be a still-alive Constantine VI), a rabidly-iconoclast ruler.  So that's pro-Bible (as pro- as the Byzantines ever got).  Focus is on Anatolia and especially how Arabs lost  in 839+ due to internal plots; caliph al-Mu'tasim dies (from illness) in 841.  So All-Seeing God Who Told You In Advance, has Mark keep on marking deaths of rulers and reversals.. but not always Roman Emperors, huh.  Theo himself dies JANUARY 842.  The following year is considered by historians to be the end of the 'reconstruction' period for Byz, and its 'golden age' then starts, ending in 1071.  Text here seems to say the opposite.

 

 Michael III's his kid (contemporary account in Chapter 5 here), rules to the end of v.24a (murdered in 867 by his best friend, Basil; covered in Chap 6).  Resurgence of Irene-like mother-son fighting & icon worship starting 842 due to his dad's death.  So the bookend parallel is made to Constantine I killing his own mother, son, and his own sons fighting with each other over 'God' (verse 8).   That kind of reversal, here.  Told here in advance by Christ then history.  So we're not surprised that language similar to v.24b, corresponding to Leo VI's reign, heads Chapter 7, Sections 8,28 & 34, footnote 103 of the life of Leo VI (p200 & 211 of pdf), penned by Scylitzes.

 

v.26, ἴδε syll 893-5, covers 923-5 AD.  Since it's hooked up with huios, click here for the details.  This is the END of a second internal nexus, as it both sevens to, and hooks up with, both kurios in v.20, and blepw/ide in v.21.  On its own, it also starts the huios anaphora nest within kurios.  This endpoint is made bald by sevening the cumulative totals (here, at 910).  V24-26 end in a sevening, and v20-23 end in a sevening.  Somehow v.23 and this v.26 are turning points in history.

 

v.29, ἴδε syll 1019-20, covers 1049-50 AD. Purple-born Zoe (daughter of Constantine VIII) dies 1050; her third husband Constantine IX survives her as the Emperor not a mere consort; he lives another five years.  Zoe's purple-born co-empress sister Theodora, also survives another six years (end of Mark 13:29a), end of Macedonian line; Empire declines (so yeah door is engus=1083; of fighting noble families, Komnenoi finally win; Alexios I Komnenos consolidates his power; to defeat the Seljuks, he invokes Western support, becomes Emperor of 1st Crusade (v.30b here), himself dying at mou in v.31).  How ironic: Bible gets out, away from political domination; her mistakes make her territory look ripe for plucking. 21 years later, an Arab nearly does -- then his son decides on fig-tree Jeru, instead.

 

v.33, Blepw syll 1134-1136. Sevens at 1134-812, so runs 1164-1166 AD.  Manuel I, son of John II Comnenus (who dies end v.32), so born to the purple (literally).  Big reformer, high on the arts and learning, good negotiator, solves problems without violence as a preference, kinda like the eastern equiv of Charlemagne. Iconoclast, but apparently not rabid.  His big problem was no heir.  His first wife dies and he marries another.  He was big on letting the monasteries be autonomous and tax-free; but in so doing, he depletes the full treasury his dad left him.  Worse, he has a son Alexius II born 1171, gone by puberty (1183), run by his mom; so usurper Andronikos I  (nasty cousin of Manuel who escapes prison for treason against Manuel, in 1165) took over, killed the boy.  Massive palace intrigue and wars still continue, so will bring on the sack of Constantinople.  For Manuel I had died 1180 @start of ἐστιν, get the pun?  Under him, the alleged 'golden age' of Byzantium, quickly unraveled when he died, an hour no one expected.

 

All five Blepw anaphora keywords have same 'reversal' quality as Paul used for the eta in thelematos, but focus on undoing of predecessor's achievements due to incompetnce/corruption in successor or vice versa.

 

The other keywords are nested in pairs, and seven to each other.  They 'contain' the last two Blepw verses.  This is just like Paul's style.  Kurios forms the outer 'shell at v.20 and v.35.  In between, are verses 26 and 32, which contain the huios references.  The two v.23 and v.33 Blepw verses in turn, 'sandwich' the huios referenes, making for a third 'nest'.  Amazing.  From this structure it should become obvious how God interrelates the events depicted by the keywords' order of occurrence:  God Sees the Son.  Clever PREGNANT way to remember the outline of the text!  Since Mark was around Paul so much, he would have been familiar with Paul's constantly using pregnancy as a style in all his letters (i.e., Romans 8:22 is theme of that chapter).  So think: now you know EXACTLY how Christ's nature works, no need to FIGHT or hold councils to argue!  Clear proof that the folks who had the original mss, whose tongue was a version of the same language.. couldn't even count syllables.  But you can.

Kurios refs (in Matt24-25, these are keywords for Bible translations, manuscript finds, reformers):

 

v.20, sylls 702-4, 1st kurios creates the 'center' nexus for all three 'nests' starts 732-734 AD. (See also verses 35, 21, 26 ; verse 23 ends first internal nexus.)  We can call this 'center' for two big reasons.  First, it's synonymal to Ἰησοῦς (and sevens to its v.5 occurrence, 701-169 or 705=166+539=77 sevens, age of David @ death, Christ 77th Son in Luke3, and 490, lol), which was used twice before (verses 2 and 5), so this kurios is third instance; its companion ho christos in v.21 makes this a pair.  Since there are 8 total occurrences of Iesous or synonyms of Him, only a pair works to get center (so that both sides are equal).  So that center, must be verses 20-21.

 

Add now, fact  ὁ υἱός is used thrice, first as τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου in verse 26, then simple nominative ὁ υἱός in v.32; finally, ἄνθρωπος in v.34.  So v.26 starts huios anaphora -- which is wholly nested inside kurios.  He's the Center of history, get the pun?  So Mark uses the same roping anaphora style as Paul's epainon, linking from the center (which incidentally is yet another proof Mark's Gospel, is third).  That was Ephesians 1:12, focusing on Constantine, 320-334 sylls=AD.  So Mark does that too, shooting over this v.20, to hook Constantinian meter in v.9, to v.23.

 

So note how the distance from the end of the kurios keyword here in v.20, to just before the start of v.35's kurios, is 511.  So the distance between, sevens.  Thus our next task is to find where is the overlap.  To do that, we need find the center of the only other keyword left, blepw (ide being synonymal).  The internal center of blepw alone, is verse 9 (3rd of 5 occurrences).  The internal center of blepw+ide, is a pair within verse 21 (6th of 11 occurrences).  Note also that ho christos is sandwiched in between, creating another sevened roping from kurios (distance is 49, between).

 

So why this period? Battle of Tours/Poitiers was 732/3.  In the East, Leo III (deemed the restorer of Empire, a major cultural goal among folks living in the East), was a big reformer, instituting helpful reduction in tax burdens and serf suffering; he was also against icon veneration (little dolls like ancient lares, but supposedly of Christ and saints, also relics and paintings of same), so he waged war against the clerics;  so in 732 the Pope anathametized him and his fellow iconoclasts; so Leo took Papal territory in Italy.  In 740 he stopped the Arabs, cutting their days in his land.. short.  But he maybe was pro-forced conversion of Jews? His son will be famous reformer-successor in 741, Constantine V, who was crowned at age 2, in 720 (690 in meter, haha).  So Bible frees up during this time.

 

Constantine V, like his dad Leo III, was an avid reformer.  He wanted back to the bible and most of Constantinople did too, rather than icons and rituals, summoning a (Hiereia) council to reason out why icons should be banned, in 754.  In short, he wanted to rid Byzantium of falsehood built up over the centuries, resulting in monasteries and monks who invented a host of heaven to worship, not the real Word.  So yeah, Bible frees up a lot during this time, as the council was attended by like-minded prelates.  These three years were their strongest period.  After C dies in 775 AD, they will be reversed by his power-mad daughter-in-law crowned Irene, a Pulcheria-type schemer, when her husband (CV's son) Leo IV, dies 780 AD (see v.21).  At that point she takes over as regent for their son Constantine VI.  All his short life (he dies in 797), they fought; she dies five years later.  So again, this shows the closest thing to a 'reformation' happening in the East, the back-and-forth of icon veneration.  So Bible is freed up during the no-icon ascendency periods.

 

Then arrives Nikephorous, ruled 802-811, start of v.22.  Cute for Mark to tag him as 'rising' and a pseudo-christ in v.22. He is unrelated to the dynasty, was an official under Irene, staged a coup d'etat against her.  He rules until 811, when he dies and his son replaces, only to be overthrown again.  Nike was 'neutral' to the iconoclasts.  That meant Bible was freer to move around.

 

But the Empire was in financial straits.  So flipside, Nike instituted massive, mainly tax-related reforms to get money, called 'vexations' by his critics.  But his foreign policy essentially protected Anatolia (where Paul spent much of his missionary time) from the Arabs, starting in 809 when the Arab ruler died.  Exit window.  During that same time he bested Charlemagne re territories in Italy and Dalmatia, getting peace in 810.  He dies the following year, after a nearly successful campaign against the Bulgars; but after winning, he gets trapped by their retreating army, and dies.  This too needs to be a movie.  Why it matters: after Nikephorous' son dies, there is an interregnum followed by a tug-of-war with pro-icon and anti-Rome religiosity, which threatens to close the Bible door. Makes sense, as Nikephorous' son-in-law Michael I Rhangabe ruled next, ending spring 813.  Replacing him (by coup d'etat) is a former general, Leo V, representing a victory for the iconclasts, 813-820.   Then on Christmas Day, he's murdered brutally in a church by his former friend who Leo jailed, Michael II (hostile contemporary account in Chapter 3, here, note icondules/iconphiles were very anti-semitic); so now a new dark period, ensues.

 

Next, v.35, starts at 1216 thru 1219 (incl. article), sevens from kurios to kurios, @1215-704=511 again (see also v.23), =1246-1249 AD.  This covers Latin Baldwin II in the East, the last Latin Emperor, who kept selling priceless religious artefacts to avoid takeover.  So he probably sold Bible manuscripts.   The 'empire' was little more than the city of Constantinople at this point. The period focuses on his time in France (which I can't research), trying to raise money to defend against the Mongols, Arabs/Turks (Crusades in last phase), the Bulgars, etc.  Above all, to defend against the Palaiologoi, who aimed to retake Constantinople and restore the Byzantine Empire in his stead.  This also happens to be the heyday of Bible collection, translation, publication, as little Bibles were wildly popular; Paris was one of the centers for making those Bibles, along with Milan.  Baldwin II has a bunch of them to sell. Irony here is that the popularity of Bibles was too often due to people drooling over the Rapture/2nd Advent based on a misreading of Daniel 12's 1260, thinking it signified the AD year 1260.  So when it came and went, they lost interest in Bible.   So the Lord suddenly came home to them via the Word, but oh well...

 

Yet due to Baldwin's mendicancy he forms alliances in the West (being himself from Flanders) that will later nearly topple Michael VIII (who retook Constantinople in 1261).  Point is, Baldwin II's straits  led to much freer dissemination of the Greek mss than had hitherto been possible.  After 1261 for decades, Michael and his successors will be boxed in a simmering two-front conflict (Arabs/Turks, Mongols on East and Papacy coalitions in West).

 

Empire falls apart after MVIII dies; Mark 13 ends at just after the 1st Venetian war w MVIII's son Andronikos II; he had to play the Daniel 11 trick of strategic marriage, and marry off even his baby daughter to get the backing for fighting or stop hostilities;  on the heels of all that in 1305, unofficial then official civil war started w his grandson (who wins, so II ends up a monk).  Someone should turn the story into a movie.  Bottom line, the West got a lot of mss out of this, both when they sacked Rome and when they were driven out.

 

Meanwhile, there was a 'kingdom' of Nicaea, which John III Vatatzes rules.  His empire was northwest 1/3 of Anatolia, Paul's old stomping grounds. By 1246 he'd been in power 20+ years despite opposition by his fellow Byzantines (for the old Empire split up during the Latin control of Constantinople).  During 1246-1249 he managed to capture territory surrounding Constantinople on the other side of the Bosphorus.  During the interim, he'd been in talks to reconcile with the West, but they didn't work due to doctrinal differences.  So it's safe to assume that with all the warring, changes of territory, etc. that many Bible manuscripts got out. It's also safe to assume that any Bible-reading Christians were either protected or left the area during the takeovers.   This matters much during this time, as it was the heyday of Bible learning in the West, and both Paris and Milan were hungry for mss.  Same was going on in Spain, even among Muslim rulers who remained during the Reconquista (Granada, I think?) so that trade in Bible would be higher than normal.

 

Huios refs (in Matt24-25, these are keywords for missionaries, Bible translations):

 

v.26, ἴδε and huios, starts syll 896-8. The huios sevens to prior kurios as 898-702=196; period spans 926-8 AD; it's coupled with ἴδε anaphora, so period runs 923-8.   This period covers Constantine VII and his regent, Romanos I Lekapenos (who started rule in 920; Chapter 10 here, but start in Chapter 9 for context;  CVII himself ruling alone, is in Chapter 11).  These years 'saw' Bulgarian independence (who won added territory).  Simeon I the Great of Bulgaria, was consecrated as Basileus by Nicholas Mystikos in 913, but the regents wouldn't recognize Simeon; so the latter renewed war against Byzantium; Romanos, after becoming Emperor, in 924 negotiates a peace with Simeon, who then dies in 927.  Mystikos himself, dies in 925. Contemporary account, is in Chapters 9ff, here.

 

Mark's 2nd Advent language here is baffling, especially as it sevens in 26a, dysyntactically.  However, when you read Chapter 9 Section 2 here, you see Mark's prophetic satire on their thinking (starts at p.222 of the pdf linked).  'Savior' musical chairs, all in the name of a 'son' in his minority.  See the Son be Mocked.

 

Puppet Patriarch of Constantinople, Stephen II Amasea, died 928, replaced by Tryphon, appointed by Romanos I until the latter's son Theophylaktos -- castrated to help his career in the church?! --  to be of age (16!) for the post, three years later.  So Mark mocks the blatant manipulation of state vs. church.

 

Backstory:  Leo VI married his mistress Zoe in 901 and then-patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, refused to consecrate the marriage.  So VII was indeed born four years later in the purple chamber, but shouldn't have been allowed there.  So Leo ousted Mystikos, installed someone else, but then died; so Mystikos returns as one of the regents for VII.  War with Bulgaria ending 913 included a deal of VII marrying a Bulgarian princess; 'the people' got upset with that; so Mystikos was ousted again, and the marriage didn't happen.  Zoe then plays games, so Bulgarian war restarts, has setbacks, so enter our admiral Romanos to save Byzantium; so he becomes the head regent in 919 (competing powers, shaken!), ensuite emperor; VII's married off to Romanos' daughter, right where Mark 13:26's 'ton huion' begins.  Aha.  So Romanos is the Savior arriving with the clouds, four corners depicting the four co-emperors by 926, his own sons plus oh yeah that's right, we almost forgot.. Constantine VII.  Yikes.  So what goes around comes around, lo!  By 940 AD a son is born to CVII; now the bros must oust daddy, who regrets how he treated CVII?!  Worse, a year prior Otto I wanted to make a marriage alliance with VII (and did, see OttoII), just as CHARLEMAGNE tried in 780s et seq.  Off again on again, Daniel 11-type behavior. Cuz Satan's trying to CREATE Rev 17 conditions, get it?  (Romanos II is covered in Skylitzes Chapter 12.)

 

Epilogue: by the end of μετὰ δυνάμεως in Mark 13:26b (Romanos I tonsured mid-δυνάμεως), start 946 AD, everyone's gone but Constantine VII; by 949, the arranged marriage Romanos made for CVII's son back in 945 (to illegit daughter of Hugh King of the Franks), also ended (the girl died at kai, when she was 9-10 years old).  Kinda like the Elizabeth I story.  So with power, alright.  God doesn't like it when duly-constituted authority is usurped, even if that authority is bad. Over the next 13 years VII's cordial with Cordoba (where Jews who copied OT lived), and with Kievan Rus.  So maybe some Bible mss got out and taught? I can't tell.  VII dies in 959, at v.27's λεῖ.  His son Romanos II dies at the end of the verse, and the 'angel' who replaces him, is Nikephoros II (Chapter 14, Scylitzes). Ha: at end of v.27's ἐπισυνάξει, he dies.

 

Now for the punchline: Nikephorus II takes over next, marries the widow of Romanus II (stories contradict, Psellos' vs Scylitzes Chapters 12-16).  Her name was Theophanu or Theophano.  Romanus had picked her as his second wife, his first dying when he was age 10-12 and she about 9-12, supposedly illegitimate child of Hugh, the king of the Franks.  His second marriage was about 956, so he was about 16-18, and Theophano (nee Anastaso) was about two years younger.  When RII dies in 963, she had three kids by him, one newly born; she either solicited Nikephorus' hand or he insisted on it to legitimate his usurpation, that same year.  So now Nikephorus II reigns, his taxation and alleged cruelty being so onerous, a relative John Tzimiskes, alleged new lover of Theophanu, hacks NII to death in his sleep.  Whereupon John takes over; but the monks intervene and disallow him marrying Theophanu; so he sends her to a monastery, marries someone else, but since her boys were already crowned, he rears them as his successors: Basil, Constantine, Anna.  John defeats the Bulgars and Russians; then sends his niece to marry Otto II; her name is also.. Theophanu. Thus he solidified his own legitimacy and kept Byz Italian territory, with better peace.

 

Revelation 17's meter often tags Mark 13, and ends on the punchline, the RII-Theophanu marriage in 956.  It can't be coincidental; from Constantine VII onward, the imperial deaths, births, marriages of both East and West 'Rome', converge repeatedly.

 

Mark's biting use of 'son' for Constantine VII deftly tags a Henry VIII-Anne Boleyn kind of split with the Byzantine equivalent of the papacy.  But this time, a son is born, his dad replaces the 'pope', then dies himself, only to be replaced with someone outside the family as regent for that same son; the outsider, like Stilicho, marries off his daughter to that son to legitimize himself; with the one who refused to consecrate the marriage having also been and remaining, regent for that son.  But the real son himself is never seen; or, is only seen with his supposed guardian-messengers gathering everyone;  that son instead really spends his life writing books no one reads (hint hint, no one's reading the Bible in Byzantium, though they preserve it in Greek).

 

You can't make this stuff up.

 

So Mark's sevening blocks off the period from 850 (start verse 24) to 940 AD (end verse 26a) as full of apocalypse-ending signs: darkened sun and moon, falling stars, powers of the heavens shaken, then deux ex machina in comes the outsider with his many servants, gathering the remnant back to a new rule, and a new peace.  So that period in Byzantium, spans Michael III and his disastrous mother, to Romanos I who rises due to another disastrous mother.  Consistent with all the ide references, always playing on Ephesians 1:9, 12 prophetical meter-mocking of Severan mothers, then Constantine I.

 

v.32, syll 1126-1128, which corresponds to 1156-1158 AD.  Earlier part of Manuel I (see also v.33), centers on him avenging the Cyprus invasion; frankly there was a lot going on during these years.  Afterwards, he contracted marital and political alliances with Hungary, then the Russians, as he had no son (haha); so it was more important than usual, to keep Fredrick Barbarossa of Italy, at bay. I don't see any missionary data other than Christianization of Estonia.  However, Roman church was undergoing schism, so too the always-contentious prelates in Constantinople; with Manuel, successfully mediating.

 

The huios refs seven to each other at 1127-896=231.  That's the same meter as God's Reply in Daniel 9:24-27.  Here it seems unusual, maybe syllable count is one off within the section.  Common theme might be Emperor as Reformer (the 'mission').  Sadly, I can't find anything special in Bible translations or mss.  In the East, Greek mss were common.  It wasn't so much that the texts were kidnapped, as in the West;  but rather, people cared more for the emotional ritual and icon junk.   Or so it seems.  If  East also kidnapped Bible, Mark 13's telling yet another dark story but right now, I don't see it (pun intended).

 

There's another huios reference in v.34, which is anarthrous, so Bibles translate it as Son of Man;  so let's count it, too.

v.34, anthrwpos, syll 1154-1156, which corresponds to 1184-1186 AD.   Click here for the details that precede.  The ruler in question during this v34 time is the guy whose rule is the cause of Byzantium's sacking 20 years later, Andronikos I.  Technically, Andy consulted some diviner who said he'd be succeeded by someone named Isaac, so Andy tried to get Isaac Angelos killed.  At the time, the latter was no threat at all, but the publicity made him popular with the people who hated Andy, so now they wanted to make Isaac emperor.. and did, killing Andy in Sept 1185 in the middle of anthrwpos.  Cute play on his name: andros means noble man, whereas anthrwpos can mean any man.  Here, the term is anarthrous, stressing quality.  But Andy's quality was violent, so that's how he dies, too.. going away one hopes still to heaven, where he's a spiritual baby for eons. Note the pic in that wiki article: women are cutting him; one has cut off his FOOT (pous means foot).

 

Ten years later, civil war and pretenders in his family put Isaac back in prison, then bring him out 8 years later, fight some more by enlisting the Latins, and then renege on the promise to pay the Latins for their help; so the Latins sack Constantinople; they installed their own rulers from 1204 to 1261. So yeah, it's like a man going away entrusting his servants to keep alert, especially to guard the door.. and they didn't.  Yikes, can the satire be more biting?  The sack starts at the middle of the first autou in v.34b.  Ouch.  Guess they're not HIS servants anymore, huh.

 

Next big question: how might consistency of pronunciation be an issue?  What if the writer intends to slur or ellide, as in movies? Accent identifies important information about the speaker (dialect of a hillbilly versus a foreign accent, etc).  Right now only partial consistency is reflected within in the metering: the author's own style.  This is especially true of ellision and Hebraisms.  Matthew seems to prefer Hebraic dipthongs, so kurios is always two syllables versus the usual three found in Paul, here in Mark, etc.  So far, am allowing the meter to demonstrate a pattern and then deciding the pronunciation, based on that.  So it's subjective.

Remember, add 30 to the cum Totals, to convert to 'our' AD

 

 

 

Anaphora worksheet to test efficacy of Amen anaphora distancing (totals should seven or three, if syllable counts are likely right): http://www.brainout.net/AmenAnaphoraR.xls

This doc (editable): http://www.brainout.net/Matt24-25ParsedR6.doc  (Blue highlights show R5 updates. Bibleworks fonts for Greek, download: http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html ).  Greek is pasted from Bibleworks 9's BGT, including relevant CNTTS variants.  PDF: http://www.brainout.net/Matt24-25ParsedR6.pdf  (pdf is a version; it will not be updated.)  When Luke21 and/or Mark 13 also 'tag' Matthew 24-25 at the same syllable clause, the number will be boxed.

 

The following meters which are sevened, have doctrinal values derived from the Old Testament which interact with the text (as cross-reference, elucidator, dateline, or verifier of syllable counts), and reflect Bible's doctrine on how God orchestrates Time.  (Master Meter list is LukeDatelineMeters.pdf .)  Meters are usually combined from the list below:

 

7 means promise and Tribulation-quality (much suffering to grow).

14 means double trouble.

21 means number of years Jacob indentured himself with Laban, so comes to mean growth under often unfair authority.

28 means 21+7.

35 means God's Vote, waiting for man's vote (total equals 70, so it's something of a pun).  Isaiah 53 used the meter this way, to 'package' his matching paragraphs to Psalm 90.

42 means double growth, 21x2.

49 means Diaspora, missed sabbatical years; Daniel prays at the start of 49th year 1st Temple Down (per his meter), for its restoration.  So comes to mean severe apostasy.

56 means the 49 + extra 7 years due on that added 49 which also got missed.  Comes to mean Danger of Vote Short.  Thus Tribulation is a hanging chad, 69 sevens in Daniel 9:26;  the missed time couldn't be made up until Messiah came, and He was scheduled to die age 40, 1000 years after David died.  But He died 7 years early, which this Matthew 24-25 meter, stresses.  The Chapter(s) is a type of dying blessing, much like Genesis 49 was from Jacob (where the blessor foretells the future).  Like Isaac had done (when he thought he was dying, but didn't) to Jacob and Esau (Gen27:19ff).

63 means Vote Short, the missing 7 wasn't/won't be made up.  Pointed here in Matt24;  His due-7 will be spent taking down the Temple, 33-40 years after He dies.

70 means Voting Period, 490+70+490=1000+50 to harvest the Gentiles, with the 70 'paying' for the 50 (hence the severe requirement for sabbatical years). Jacob spent 70 years after returning to the Land, before entering Egypt.  The math of the 70 'paying' for the 50, is in http://www.brainout.net/TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc  page 15.

77 means David's Age at Death (idea of completing God's purpose for one's life).  1Kings 6:1 in context from 2:39 and 1Chron22 tells you that, but scholars use Josephus. Isaiah 53 uses the 77 in his meter, since its theme is First David to Last David.

84 means God's Decree given but not yet completed, first used by Moses in Psalm 90:4.  Isaiah splits the 84 into 42's to begin and end his Chapter 53.

91 means Lord's 91st year, when the Tribulation was supposed to start, pre-Church.

98 means Lord's 98th year, when the Tribulation was supposed to end and the Mill begin, pre-Church.  Shorthand for Millennium.

105 means 98+7, balance to Jacob's birth 2106 from Adam's Fall (Lord was initially supposed to be born 2000 years later), so it's a balance to Jacob.

126 means 70+56, Doom Time, which Isaiah 53 used equidistantly: he wrote 126 years before 1st Temple would go down, and it would go down with 126 yrs left on its 490-yr time grant, hence Daniel 9:26 re-credits that lost time (49+70+reimburse the 364 Temple Standing Years = the 69 weeks in Daniel 9:26, with 7 left on the 126 for Dan 9:27).

308 means Noah's time in Ark from entry to his 601st birthday. Details are at http://www.vimeo.com/channels/noahicfloodprecedence .

364 means Noah's time in Ark and 1st Temple standing time.

430 means time Israel was in Egypt, Exodus 12:40-41 (390 in slavery +10 slavery years for Joseph, so first 40 years in Egypt were nice).

434 means 364+70.

490 means Time Grant to someone supermaturing within a historical 490 (else Time ends for the world), starting with Adam's Fall.

560 means 490+70: not only did someone supermature, but at least one person voted to learn God during the 70 (Noah, Moses, see http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls ).

 

1050 means 490+70+490, the basic civilization unit, which is also 1000+50.  Two each were promised, first to non-Jews (Adam until Abram), then Jews (Abraham in 2046 supermatured, through the death of Christ, originally scheduled for 4146, but truncated to 4143, the earlier rule of 1000 years after David's death; He actually dies two months after speaking here, in 4136 from Adam's fall, rounded to 4137 in the meter counts using the civil year, which began just over 6 months prior).  Talmud Sanhedrin 97-99 is a garbled version of this provision (or shorthand, excluding the extra 50's).  Here, Matthew 24-25 is likely the source of the Messiah 2000, since the OT scheduled Mill to begin at 4200 (Psalm 90's meter).  Here, Christ extends the timeline longer than the OT did.  (So Book of Enoch is likely also a garbled version of Matt24-25, so is not by the 'Enoch' in the OT.)

 

Luke 21 dateline meter plays on 28 (writing 28 years after Christ died, 35 years till pre-Church Mill) and 63 (=28+35), since Christ spoke Matt24/25 and Luke21 63 years before the pre-Church Mill (excluding the year He spoke).  Luke and Paul play on 70, here as 63+7.  Luke ends his 1085 meter (1050+35) with a differential of 70 then 77, reversing the differential here at the end of Matt25.  So it's intentional.

 

Matt24-25 anaphora parse as separate clauses; seems like hoti, when present, ends the clause; hoti introduces content, bullet point to be made, as in legal English 'that:'

• First occurrence of ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, is not counted.  The anaphora count begins after it ends.  Its 'map' is the http://www.brainout.net/AmenAnaphora.xls .
• 2nd or 'middle' anaphora is 'roped', the count beginning at its own beginning, and ending at the end of the 'end' of the last anaphora.
• Here, the 'middle' is at 1540=1570AD, the beginning of the English Reformation.  The 'roping' is an overlap of 430 syllables=years starting at 1110, and corresponds to the years Israel was in Egypt, Exodus 12:40-41.  So an 'exodus' (of Bible, faith, freedom) seems depicted at the 1570 AD mark, which is the end of the third 490 after Christ's death, and is the second 70-year voting period (joining the two 490's in a 1050).  You can see this in http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls .  The 'map' overlap at 2006 (2036 AD), implies that Bible Freedom will be soon ending. Or something else spiritually bad.

 

This seems to be the chapter from which Paul draws his own anaphoric structure for Ephesians 1:3-14, which is also on the freeing of the Bible, the epainon anaphora from syllables = AD years 133-434, explained on pages 128ff of http://www.brainout.net/Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf, or (if you have Bibleworks fonts, available at http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html ), http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.htm#epainonTBSum .  Paul uses the same roping style as here in Matthew, though Paul's epainon anaphora only occurs three times.  Paul's middle is 320-334 (syll=AD year), centering on Constantine, precursor of the Rev17 harlot political churchinanity.

 

Here in Matthew, the phrase ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, anaphora occurs three times per chapter.  Syllable/year counts between these phrases, are in Trinity or sevening meter.  Seven means promise, and three stresses the agreement of Trinity on whatever is tri-metered (idea of Them watching it, protecting, etc).

 

If you subtract 63 (ending  first use of ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, in Matt24:2) from the 1540 count in Matt24:47, result is you get  1477=211 sevens.  Notice therefore the overlap 'in the middle', from 1110 to 1540 (1140-1570AD).  That period of then-future history is stressed as a turning point, so you know what the Lord is mapping in this timeline: BIBLE INTEREST causing history for the better (orange differentials under 105), or worse (no orange or only rare orange, so only few individuals are growing).  It serves to explain why the Rapture doesn't happen; with the text serving, as well as the 'normal' meaning, to satirically comment on the history of Church apostasy worldwide, that year.  For example, our '2016' = 1986 (convert to AD by adding 30 to the syllable count).  What's that syllable?  Matt 25:11, foolish virgins clamor Lord Lord let us in!