disorder, and the breakdown of social conventions, in accordance with Jesus’s prediction recorded in Matthew 24:4–51 Meier 2025; Shoemaker 2018; Amirav, Grypeou, and Stroumsa 2017. In line with this expectation,John of Ephesus evokes eschatological imagery by identifying the divi…

o Matthew 24:14 and in this respect gives it an eschatological perspective; in EH 3.6.1, John quotes Matthew 24:33. It is noticeable that unlike other apocalypses, John never refers to the Book of Daniel; the Book of Revelation was not part of the Syriac canon anyway. EH 3.1.3.f…

know that it has arrived at the door”: Another quotation with eschatological connotations taken from Matthew 24:33, the chapter containing Jesus’s teaching about the end times on the Mount of Olives. The only difference to the Peshitta is John’s insertion of the participle ܕܗ̈ܘ̣ܝ…