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Mat_10:32 f. Πᾶς οὖν , κ . τ . λ .] Nominative, like Mat_10:14.
ἐν ἐμοί ] is neither a Hebraism nor a Syriac mode of expression; nor does it stand for the dative of advantage; nor does it mean through me (Chrysostom); but the personal object of confession is conceived of as the one to whom the confession cleaves. Exactly as in Luk_12:8. Similar to ὀμνύειν ἐν , Mat_5:34.
In the apodosis, notice the order: confess will I also him (as really one of mine, and so on).
ἔμπροσθεν … οὐρανοῖς ] namely, after my ascension to the glory of heaven as σύνθρονος of the Father, Mat_26:64; comp. Rev_3:5.
Mat_10:32-33 contain, as an inference from all that has been said since Mat_10:16, a final observation in the form of a promise and a threatening, and expressed in so general a way that the disciples are left to make the special application for themselves.
The address, which is drawing to a close in Mat_10:33, pursues still further the same lofty tone, and that in vivid imagery, in Mat_10:34, so full is Jesus of the thought of the profound excitement which He feels He is destined to create.