Sentences with phrase «desolating sacrilege»

The «desolating sacrilege,» of verse 14, refers to Daniel 9:27 and 11:31 where the pagan pollution of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes is described.

There the expression refers to the desecration of the temple in 167 B.C. by Antiochus Epiphanes, whose forces «erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering» (I Macc 1:54).

Mark and Matthew begin by referring to the «desolating sacrilege» (KJV «abomination of desolation») which will be «set up where it ought not to be» (Mark), «standing in the holy place» (Matthew).