Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

  “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— Matthew 24:15 TNIV The abomination of desolation. These words relate to that passage of Daniel 9:27,  which I would render thus; “In the middle of that week,” namely, the last of the seventy, “he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease, even until the wing or army of abomination shall make desolate,”; or, even by the wing of abominations making desolate. wing is an army , Isa. 8:8: and in that sense Luke 21:20 rendered these words, “when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army,” Let him that reads understand.   This is not spoken so much for the obscurity as for the certainty of the prophecy: as if he should say, “He that reads those words in Daniel, let him mind well that when the army of the prince which is to come, that army of abominations, shall compass round Jerusalem with a siege, then most cert...