Verse 12
And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
No one may doubt the literal fulfillment of such familial treachery against the Lord's disciples; for such would naturally have occurred: (1) because of craven hatred of the truth; (2) hope of saving one's own life; or even (3) from hope of sordid gain.
And ye shall be hated ... As Sanner said,
Has our time forgotten the chilling words of Jesus, "Ye shall be hated of all ... for my name's sake"? Let a man of God disturb entrenched ignorance, prejudice, or evil, personal and social, and he will face the sinister, stolid face of hate.[24]
He that endureth to the end ... Sanner noted that this means "He who endures to the last degree,"[25] or, as Bickersteth stated: "It means, not the end of the age, but the end of the moral probation of the individual."[26]
[24] A. Elwood Sanner, op. cit., p. 382.
[25] Ibid.
[26] E. Bickersteth, op. cit., p. 198.
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