For whosoever shall be ashamed of me
Of my person and offices, of me, as the Messiah, Saviour, and
Redeemer, of my grace, righteousness, blood, and sacrifice:
and of my words;
of the doctrines of the Gospel, one and another of them. In Mark,
it is added, "in this adulterous and sinful generation"; having a
peculiar respect to the people of the Jews, and the age in which
Christ lived; but is true of any other people and age in which
men live:
of him shall the son of man be ashamed when he shall come
in his own
glory;
in the glory of his human nature, when his glorious body, as now,
in heaven, shall be seen by all; and in the glory of his office,
as mediator, and the judge of all the earth; and in the glory of
his divine nature, which will appear in the resurrection of the
dead, in the gathering of all nations before him, in separating
one sort from another, and in passing and executing the
definitive sentence on them; particularly the glory of his
omnipotence and omniscience will be very conspicuous:
and in his Father's;
which is the same with his own, as he is the Son of God, and the
brightness of his glory; and which, as mediator, he has from him,
and will be the object of the saints' vision to all eternity;
and of the holy angels;
who shall attend him at his second coming, and be employed in
various offices under him. The Syriac version renders, these last
clauses as they are in ( Matthew
16:27 ) ( Mark 8:38 ) in the glory
of his Father, with his holy angels; (See Gill on Matthew
16:27). (See Gill on Mark
8:38).