For the son of man shall come in the glory of his
Father,
&c.] This is a reason, proving the truth of what is before
asserted, that men's lives may be lost by saving them, and be
found by losing them, whatever paradoxes they may seem to be; and
that the loss of a soul is irrecoverable, and no compensation can
be made for it; and points out the time, when all this will
appear: for nothing is more certain, and to be depended upon,
than that Christ, who, though he was then a mean and contemptible
man, and attended with the sinless infirmities of human nature,
wherefore he calls himself, "the son of man", should come; either
a second time to judgment at the last day, in the same glory as
his Father, as his Son, equal with him, and clothed, with power
and authority from him, and as mediator, to execute judgment:
with his angels; the Holy Ones, so the Syriac and Persic versions
read, and so some copies; who will add to the glory of his
appearance; and will be employed in gathering all nations before
him, and in executing his will: or, in his power, to take
vengeance on the Jewish nation; on those that crucified him, or
did not believe in him, or deserted and apostatised from him. And
then he shall reward every man according to his works, or work;
either that particular action of putting him to death, or their
unbelief in him, or desertion of him; or any, or all of their
evil works, they had been guilty of: for though good works are
not the cause of salvation, nor for which men will be rewarded;
though they may be brought into judgment, as proofs and evidences
of true faith, in the person, blood, and righteousness of Christ,
by which good men will be acquitted and discharged; yet evil
works will be the cause of condemnation, and the rule of
judgment; and the reason of adjudging to temporal punishment
here, and eternal destruction hereafter.