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(4.) [[Daniel (EBD)|Daniel]] (11:31), in that section of his prophecies which is generally interpreted as referring to the fearful calamities that were to fall on the Jews in the time of [[Antiochus (EBD)|Antiochus]] Epiphanes, says, "And they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." Antiochus Epiphanes caused an [[Altar (EBD)|altar]] to be erected on the altar of [[Burnt offering (EBD)|burnt-offering]], on which sacrifices were offered to [[Jupiter (EBD)|Jupiter]] Olympus. (Comp. 1 Macc. 1:57). This was the abomination of the desolation of [[Jerusalem (EBD)|Jerusalem]]. The same language is employed in Dan. 9:27 (comp. Matt. 24:15), where the reference is probably to the image-crowned standards which the Romans set up at the [[East (EBD)|east]] [[Gate (EBD)|gate]] of the [[Temple, Herod's (EBD)|temple]] (A.D. 70), and to which they paid idolatrous honours. "Almost the entire religion of the Roman camp consisted in worshipping the ensign, swearing by the ensign, and in preferring the ensign before all other gods." These ensigns were an "abomination" to the Jews, the "abomination of desolation."

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