But there shall not art hair of your head
perish.
] That is, without the will of God, as in ( Matthew
10:29 Matthew
10:30 ) or not one shall perish, but what shall be restored
again: or the sense is, that though they should be betrayed by
their friends, and hated, and persecuted, and imprisoned by their
enemies, yet they should be no losers in the main; all things
should work together for their good; and though even they should
be put to death, yet that would be to their advantage, since
instead of a temporal, troublesome life, they should enjoy an
eternal and happy one: for this cannot be understood of entire
preservation from all corporeal damages and hurt; seeing it is,
before declared, that they should be put into prisons, and some
of them put to death; nor of their preservation at the
destruction of Jerusalem, for none of them was living at that
time, but the Apostle John, and he was not in those parts.