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Luk 22:29. Καγὼ) and in turn [in return for your fidelity] I. The sense is: I also will warrant that you shall be unhurt amidst your dangerous temptations (comp. Rev 3:10, “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them,” etc.), even until ye enter into the kingdom. But this is expressed in an abbreviated form of phraseology; for the entrance into the kingdom takes for granted preservation amidst temptations. [Comp. Joh 6:39, “This is the Father’s will-that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing.”]-διατίθεμαι) now, by these very words. The promise is put before the warning. See Luk 22:31. Flacius and Beza translate the word, ‘paciscor,’ I covenant to give. E. Schmidius, “testamento dispono,” I assign by will. A word appropriate to one dying. Heb 9:15-16 [He is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death for, etc.-they that are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator”]. [However the word presently after must be taken in a wider sense when it is applied to the Father (διέθετό μοι ὁ πατήρ).-V. g.]-μοι, unto me) inasmuch as I have continued stedfast.[235]-βασιλείαν, a kingdom) In a kingdom there is wont to be a princely and splendid style of living and diet, as also royal power and the exercise of it. Both are promised in the following verse. [Then indeed the question, who is to be accounted the greater, will have easily passed away from the memory of all. He who duly considers these so great blessings which are promised will find no difficulty in making the world a secondary consideration in his aims.-V. g.]
[235] I have persevered; referring to the disciples having perseveringly continued, διαμεμενηκότες, Luk 22:28.-E. and T.