Mattheüs 24:13

13 Maar wie volharden zal tot het einde, die zal zalig worden.

Mattheüs 24:13 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 24:13

But he that shall endure to the end
In the profession of faith in Christ, notwithstanding the violent persecutions of wicked men; and in the pure and incorrupt doctrines of the Gospel, whilst many are deceived by the false teachers that shall arise; and in holiness of life and conversation, amidst all the impurities of the age; and shall patiently bear all afflictions, to the end of his life, or to the end of sorrows, of which the above mentioned were the beginning:

the same shall be saved;
with a temporal salvation, when Jerusalem, and the unbelieving inhabitants of it shall be destroyed: for those that believed in Christ, many of them, through persecution, were obliged to remove from thence; and others, by a voice from heaven, were bid to go out of it, as they did; and removed to Pella, a village a little beyond Jordan ^F21, and so were preserved from the general calamity; and also with an everlasting salvation, which is the case of all that persevere to the end, as all true believers in Christ will.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 3. c. 5.

Mattheüs 24:13 In-Context

11 En vele valse profeten zullen opstaan, en zullen er velen verleiden.

12 En omdat de ongerechtigheid vermenigvuldigd zal worden, zo zal de liefde van velen verkouden.

13 Maar wie volharden zal tot het einde, die zal zalig worden.

14 En dit Evangelie des Koninkrijks zal in de gehele wereld gepredikt worden tot een getuigenis allen volken; en dan zal het einde komen.

15 Wanneer gij dan zult zien den gruwel der verwoesting, waarvan gesproken is door Daniel, de profeet, staande in de heilige plaats; (die het leest, die merke daarop!)