All things are put off till then. — avoduxKi exdaru, He will render to each individual) This is the attribute of Divine Majesty ; see Rom. ii. Q.l--<7rpa;~tv, action, conduct, doing) The word is put in the singular, for the whole life of man is one doing?
28. Tivlg, some) Our Lord does not mention them by name ; and it was profitable for them not to know that they were the persons meant.3 Peter then scarcely hoped that he would be one of them. — uds, here) A strikingly demonstrative particle. — £w$ av '/ftcafft, until they see) Something is indicated which was to happen, but not immediately (otherwise all, or nearly all, would have lived to that time), but yet something which would take place in that generation of men. This term (terminus) or period has various intervals : the vision, or seeing, various degrees up to the death of those who saw it, which followed at various times : cf. in Luke ii. 26, the expression nph % 'idy, before he had seen, used with regard to Simeon. And the advent of the Son of Man advanced another step before the death of James (see Acts ii. 36, and passim till xii. 2, and cf. Heb. ii. 5, 6, 7) ; another before the death of Peter (see 2 Pet. i. 14, 19, and Luke xxi. 31) ; another, and that the highest, before the death of John, in the most magnificent revelation of His coming, which the beloved disciple has himself described (see Gnomon on John xxi. 22) ; a revelation to which the event foretold will corres pond ; see ver. 27, and ch. xxvi. 64. And a previous proof of this matter was given in a week4 from this time on the Mount of Transfiguration ; and, at the same time, out of all the dis ciples those were chosen who should most especially see it. It is beyond question, that those three5 who witnessed our Lord's transfiguration were peculiarly favoured with reference to the subsequent manifestations of His glory. This saying of our Lord appears to have been referred to, but not rightly under-
1 There is most frequent recurrence of this expression in Scripture.— -V. g.
2 From which, according as it is subject to Christ or to the belly, many works continually, and as a natural consequence, either good or else bad, come forth (result) __ V. g.
3 And He may have thereby also at the same time sharpened others.
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4 " After six days," chap. xvii. 1. — ED.
5 Of whom James, in the year 44, Peter in 67, John in 102, are generally said to have died. — Harm., p. 372.