When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne.
Matthew 25:31. Now when the Son of man shall come in his glory. Christ follows out the same doctrine, and what he formerly described under parables, he now explains clearly and without figures. The sum of what is said is, that believers, in order to encourage themselves to a holy and upright conduct, ought to contemplate with the eyes of faith the heavenly life, which...
When the son of man shall come in his glory,.... What is before signified in the two preceding parables, is here clearly and distinctly represented without a parable: and it should be observed, that as the foregoing parables only regard the Gospel church state, and the ministers and members of it, good and bad, or all sorts of Christian professors; so this account of the...
Verse 31. When the Son of man, etc. This is in answer to the question which the disciples proposed to him respecting the end of the world, . That this refers to the last judgment, and not, as some have supposed, to the destruction of Jerusalem, appears (1.) from the fact that it was in answer to an express inquiry respecting the end of the world.