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Mat 16:27. Μέλλει ἔρχεσθαι, is about to come) A stronger expression than ἐλεύσεται will come. As the teaching concerning the person of Christ is immediately followed by that concerning His Cross, so is the latter by that concerning His glory.-τότε, then) All things are put off till then.-ἀποδώσει ἑκάστῳ, He will render to each individual) This is the attribute of Divine Majesty; see Rom 2:6.[770]-πρᾶξιν, action, conduct, doing) The word is put in the singular, for the whole life of man is one doing.[771]
[770] There is most frequent recurrence of this expression in Scripture.-V. g.
[771] From which, according as it is subject to Christ or to the belly, many works continually, and as a natural consequence, either good or else bad, come forth (result).-V. g.