Who shall also confirm you unto the end
The author of this blessing of confirmation is not the Lord Jesus
Christ, though he is mentioned in the latter part of ( 1
Corinthians 1:7 ) ; and seems to be the antecedent to the
relative "who" in this, but is not, for this confirmation is made
in him; see ( 2
Corinthians 1:21 ) ; and besides, it is in order that the
saints might be blameless in the day of Christ, and so must
design some other person distinct from him, which is God the
Father, ( 1
Corinthians 1:4 ) , to whom the apostle gives thanks, and
continues to do so unto this verse; in which he assures the
saints of confirmation in grace by God, the author and giver of
all grace: and which may be understood of their confirmation in
the love and favour of God, from which there can be no
separation; and of their establishment in the person of Christ,
and in the doctrines of grace; and of the permanency of the grace
of the Spirit in them, and of their perseverance in faith and
holiness unto the end: that is, of their days; even until the day
of Christ, when the good work begun in them shall be performed
and finished; that is, "for ever", as the Ethiopic version reads
it; for the love of God to his people always continues; their
interest in Christ can never be lost; grace in them is an
immortal seed; nor shall they be ever finally and totally moved
away from the hope of the Gospel:
that ye may be blameless;
not in themselves, for no man is without his faults; none of
God's children are without their failings and infirmities; they
have whereof to blame themselves, and may be blamed by God too in
a providential way; but they are so in Christ their head, being
justified by his righteousness, and washed in his blood; and so
in the sight of God, as considered in Christ; and will appear
such
in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when he shall descend from heaven, and take his saints to him,
and present them to himself a glorious church, without spot or
wrinkle, or any such thing.