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Mat_16:27. Γάρ ] justifies and confirms what Jesus has just stated with respect to the loss of the ψυχή . I say that not without reason; for assuredly the time of the second coming and of a righteous retribution is drawing near ( μέλλει being put first for sake of emphasis).
ἐν τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ πατρ . αὐτ .] in the same glory as belongs to God. For in this state of glory (Joh_17:5) the ascended Christ occupies the place of σύνθρονος of God.
τὴν πρᾶξιν ] the conduct, the sum of one’s doings, including, in particular, that self-denying adherence to their faith and their confession on which, above all, so much depended, in the case of the apostles, in the midst of those persecutions which they were called upon to endure.