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The meaning of the “abomination of desolation” in the Maccabean past affected its meaning in the present of the little apocalypse. Mark 13:14 probably envisions the initiation of a Hellenic sacrificial cult directed at a foreign cult statue (ho andrias, which is a masculine word in Greek). This statue would indeed stand on the temple mount.
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