So likewise ye ( οὑ ìτω και Ì ὑμεῖς, so also ye, emphatic). As surely as buds and leaves prove the coming of summer, so ye, who have been taught, may gather from the fulfilment of the signs mentioned (Matthew 24:15-22, etc.
) the approach of the end. Know that it is near ( ὁ ìτι ἐγγυ ìς ἐστιν). The subject is not expressed, but it must be the Son of man (Matthew 24:30), so that the rendering ought to be, he is near. Many, however, take the understood nominative to be the judgment, or the kingdom of God, or the occurrences last spoken of.
At the doors; as James 5:9, on the very threshold, and therefore about to enter.