Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 24:15

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so readeth let him understand.)

Mark Ch. 13.14▪ saith, Standing where it ought not. Here are two Questions. 1. What is here meant by the Abomination of Desolations. 2. What Text in Daniel our Lord referreth to. As to the latter, there are three places in Daniel which mention it, Ch. 9.27. for the over-spreading of Abominations, or (as it is in the Margent) with the Abominable Armies i. e. shall make it desolate, Ch. 11.31. They shall place the Abomination that maketh desolate, Ch. 12, 11. From the time that the daily Sacrifice shall be taken away, and the Abomination that maketh desolate, set up. Mr. Calvin thinks that the Text in Daniel here referred to, is that Dan. 12.11. others say, that it is that Dan. 9.27. contending that those two other Texts speak of Antiochus, which is the very Reason given by others to the contrary. It is of no great Consequence to us to know which Verse our Saviour referreth to. Be it which it would, it was spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, by which Quotation our Saviour doth both give his Testimony to that Book, as a part of Holy Writ, and also lets his Disciples know, that what he told them, was but what was prophesied of, and so must have its Accomplishment, and that the Iewish Worship was to cease. As to the second Question amidst the great Variety of Notions about it, I take theirs to be the best who understand the Abomination of Dissolations, to be meant of the Roman Armies, which being made up of Idolatrous Souldiers, and having with them many Abominable Images, are therefore called the Abomination; those Words of Desolations are added, because they were to make Ierusalem desolate, and so St. Luke who hath not these Words, possibly gives us in other Words, the best Interpretation of them, Chap. 21.20. And when you shall see Ierusalem compassed with Armies, then know that the Desolation thereof is nigh. When saith our Lord, you shall see the Abominable Armies stand in the holy place, that is upon the holy Ground (as all Iudea was) whoso readeth those Prophesies of the Prophet Daniel [let him understand] that as through the Righteous Judgment of God, he once suffered the holy place to be polluted by the Abominable Armies of Antiochus, which he foretold, so he will again suffer the holy place to be Polluted by the Abominable Armies of the Romans, who shall make the holy place desolate, which was Prophesied by the Prophet Daniel, as well as the former. Therefore saith our Saviour, when you see the Roman Armies pitch their Tents before Ierusalem, be you then assured, God will give Ierusalem into their Hands, and then all that I have foretold, shall come to pass.