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Mat_24:13. Ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας ] contrast to what in the σκανδαλισθής . πολλοί of Mat_24:10 and the πλανής . πολλούς of Mat_24:12 is described as apostasy, partly from the faith generally, and partly (Mat_24:12) from the true Christian faith and life. Comp. Mat_10:22. According to Fritzsche, it is only the persevering in love that is meant, so that the contrast has reference merely to ψυχήσεται , κ . τ . λ . But according to our interpretation, the contrast is more thorough and better suited to the terms of the passage.
εἰς τέλος ] not perpetuo (Fritzsche), which, as the connection shows (Mat_24:6), is too indefinite; but: unto the end, till the last, until the troubles will have come to an end, which, as appears from the context ( σωθήσεται ), will, in point of fact, be coincident with the second advent. Comp. Mat_24:30-31; Mat_10:22. The context forbids such interpretations as: unto death (Elsner, Kuinoel, Ebrard), until the destruction of Jerusalem (Krebs, Rosenmüller, R. Hofmann), σωθήσεται being referred in the latter case to the flight of the Christians to Pella (Eusebius, H. E. iii. 5). Of course Mat_24:13 describes the “sanam hominis Christiani dispositionem spiritualem ad eschatologiam pertinentem” (Dorner), always on the understanding, however, that the second advent is at hand, and that the “homo Christianus” will live to see it.