“Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.”
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets — the rejoice in that day is the call to active joy in the midst of persecution: not merely endurance but exultation. Great is your reward in heaven communicates the eschatological reversal. That is how their ancestors treated the prophets: the persecution of Jesus' followers is in the tradition of the persecution of the prophets.
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