The millstone represents one’s way of life. In the Gospel: "Two women will be grinding at the mill" (Matthew 24:41). The two millstones can also symbolize the two Testaments, through which the labor of study grinds the wheat of the Old Testament into the flour of the Gospel. Thes…

: one will be taken, and one left; two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken, and one left. Matthew 24:40-41. Luke also added about the body two, that night two will be in one bed, one will be taken, and the other left. Luke 17:34. Therefore, because in the field, th…

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…