All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
32. And all nations shall be assembled before him. He employs large and splendid titles for extolling his kingdom, that the disciples may learn to expect a different kind of happiness from what they had imagined. For they were satisfied with this single consideration, that their nation was delivered from the miseries with which it was then oppressed, so that it would be manifest that...
And before him shall be gathered all nations..... That is, all that have professed the Christian religion in all the nations of the world, whether Jews or Gentiles, high or low, rich or poor, wise and foolish, such as have had greater or lesser talents; though it is also true of every individual of mankind of every nation, tribe and family, of every sex, age...
Verse 32. And before him, etc. At his coming to judgment, the world will be burned up and destroyed, . The dead in Christ, i.e., all true Christians--shall be first raised up from their graves, . The living shall be changed --i.e., shall be made like the glorified bodies of those that are raised from the dead, . All the wicked shall rise and come forth to judgment, ; .