There is strong evidence that a majority of early Church Fathers saw Dan 9 and its Abomination of Desolation (AoD) linked to the AoD of Jesus' Olivet Discourse. The Church Fathers, as a majority, saw the AoD in Dan 9 and in the Olivet Discourse as the same, identifying it as the 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple.
They indicated as such by referencing the time of the earthly ministry of Christ, followed by the Roman desolation of the Temple and Jerusalem in that general era. I am providing some of the evidence below.
Exceptions to this time frame for the AoD are Irenaeus and Hippolytus, who saw the AoD as the Antichrist, though they still linked the AoD of Dan 9 with the AoD of the Olivet Discourse. But generally, the Church Fathers saw the AoD of Dan 9 and the AoD of Matt 24 as the same AoD, representing the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD by the Roman Army.
Here Africanus saw the 70 Weeks as completed in the time of Christ...
https://www.biblestudytools.com/hist...africanus.html
Sextes Julius Africanus (180-250)
The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus.16
"It is by calculating from Artaxerxes, therefore, up to the time of Christ that the seventy weeks are made up, according to the numeration of the Jews."
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Here Tertullian refers to Daniel's prophecy of the 70 Weeks, which is followed by the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in the time following the ministry of Christ. I would assume that Tertullian here is identifying the AoD of Dan 9 with the AoD of the Olivet Discourse?...
http://www.earlychristianwritings.co...tullian08.html
Tertullian (155-240)
AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS.
CHAP. VIII.--OF THE TIMES OF CHRIST'S BIRTH AND PASSION, AND OF JERUSALEM'S DESTRUCTION.
"Accordingly the times must be inquired into of the predicted and future nativity of the Christ, and of His passion, and of the extermination of the city of Jerusalem, that is, its devastation. For Daniel says, that "both the holy city and the holy place are exterminated together with the coming Leader, and that the pinnacle is destroyed unto ruin." And so the times of the coming Christ, the Leader, must be inquired into, which we shall trace in Daniel; and, after computing them, shall prove Him to be come, even on the ground of the times prescribed, and of competent signs and operations of His.
...Vespasian, in the first year of his empire, subdues the Jews in war; and there are made lii years, vi months. For he reigned xi years. And thus, in the day of their storming, the Jews fulfilled the lxx hebdomads predicted in Daniel."
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Here Origen also views the 70 Weeks of Dan 9 as being fulfiled in the time of Christ. That would seem to make the Olivet Discourse and its AoD a fulfillment of Dan 9?...
Origen (184-253)
DE PRINCIPIIS
"And according to Daniel, seventy weeks were fulfilled until (the coming of) Christ the Ruler."
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Clement of Alexandria (150-215) also saw Daniel's 70th Week and the AoD as fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in the time after Jesus' ministry. Again, this would identify the AoD of the Olivet Discourse with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, book 1, chapter 21 http://www.earlychristianwritings.co...ata-book1.html
In those "sixty and two weeks," as the prophet said, and "in the one week," was He Lord. The half of the week Nero held sway, and in the holy city Jerusalem placed the abomination; and in the half of the week he was taken away, and Otho, and Galba, and Vitellius. And Vespasian rose to the supreme power, and destroyed Jerusalem, and desolated the holy place. And that such are the facts of the case, is clear to him that is able to understand, as the prophet said.
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Irenaeus (180 AD) quotes Matthew 24.15 and discusses the Antichrist, and identifies him as the AoD of both Dan 9 and the Olivet Discourse. Irenaeus mentions both the "Week" of Dan 9 and the being "put to flight" of the Olivet Discourse, thus identifying Antichrist as the AoD in both passages. He does differ, however, from other Church Fathers in denying this is in the time of Christ's earthly ministry.
Against Heresies Book 5.25.4
And then he [Daniel] points out the time that his [Antichrist s] tyranny shall last, during which the saints shall be put to flight, they who offer a pure sacrifice unto God: And in the midst of the week, he says, the sacrifice and the libation shall be taken away, and the abomination of desolation [shall be brought] into the temple: even unto the consummation of the time shall the desolation be complete. Now three years and six months constitute the half-week.
They indicated as such by referencing the time of the earthly ministry of Christ, followed by the Roman desolation of the Temple and Jerusalem in that general era. I am providing some of the evidence below.
Exceptions to this time frame for the AoD are Irenaeus and Hippolytus, who saw the AoD as the Antichrist, though they still linked the AoD of Dan 9 with the AoD of the Olivet Discourse. But generally, the Church Fathers saw the AoD of Dan 9 and the AoD of Matt 24 as the same AoD, representing the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD by the Roman Army.
Here Africanus saw the 70 Weeks as completed in the time of Christ...
https://www.biblestudytools.com/hist...africanus.html
Sextes Julius Africanus (180-250)
The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus.16
"It is by calculating from Artaxerxes, therefore, up to the time of Christ that the seventy weeks are made up, according to the numeration of the Jews."
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Here Tertullian refers to Daniel's prophecy of the 70 Weeks, which is followed by the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in the time following the ministry of Christ. I would assume that Tertullian here is identifying the AoD of Dan 9 with the AoD of the Olivet Discourse?...
http://www.earlychristianwritings.co...tullian08.html
Tertullian (155-240)
AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS.
CHAP. VIII.--OF THE TIMES OF CHRIST'S BIRTH AND PASSION, AND OF JERUSALEM'S DESTRUCTION.
"Accordingly the times must be inquired into of the predicted and future nativity of the Christ, and of His passion, and of the extermination of the city of Jerusalem, that is, its devastation. For Daniel says, that "both the holy city and the holy place are exterminated together with the coming Leader, and that the pinnacle is destroyed unto ruin." And so the times of the coming Christ, the Leader, must be inquired into, which we shall trace in Daniel; and, after computing them, shall prove Him to be come, even on the ground of the times prescribed, and of competent signs and operations of His.
...Vespasian, in the first year of his empire, subdues the Jews in war; and there are made lii years, vi months. For he reigned xi years. And thus, in the day of their storming, the Jews fulfilled the lxx hebdomads predicted in Daniel."
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Here Origen also views the 70 Weeks of Dan 9 as being fulfiled in the time of Christ. That would seem to make the Olivet Discourse and its AoD a fulfillment of Dan 9?...
Origen (184-253)
DE PRINCIPIIS
"And according to Daniel, seventy weeks were fulfilled until (the coming of) Christ the Ruler."
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Clement of Alexandria (150-215) also saw Daniel's 70th Week and the AoD as fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in the time after Jesus' ministry. Again, this would identify the AoD of the Olivet Discourse with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, book 1, chapter 21 http://www.earlychristianwritings.co...ata-book1.html
In those "sixty and two weeks," as the prophet said, and "in the one week," was He Lord. The half of the week Nero held sway, and in the holy city Jerusalem placed the abomination; and in the half of the week he was taken away, and Otho, and Galba, and Vitellius. And Vespasian rose to the supreme power, and destroyed Jerusalem, and desolated the holy place. And that such are the facts of the case, is clear to him that is able to understand, as the prophet said.
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Irenaeus (180 AD) quotes Matthew 24.15 and discusses the Antichrist, and identifies him as the AoD of both Dan 9 and the Olivet Discourse. Irenaeus mentions both the "Week" of Dan 9 and the being "put to flight" of the Olivet Discourse, thus identifying Antichrist as the AoD in both passages. He does differ, however, from other Church Fathers in denying this is in the time of Christ's earthly ministry.
Against Heresies Book 5.25.4
And then he [Daniel] points out the time that his [Antichrist s] tyranny shall last, during which the saints shall be put to flight, they who offer a pure sacrifice unto God: And in the midst of the week, he says, the sacrifice and the libation shall be taken away, and the abomination of desolation [shall be brought] into the temple: even unto the consummation of the time shall the desolation be complete. Now three years and six months constitute the half-week.
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