“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.
Church Fathers on Luke 6:23
After the ordination of the Apostles, the Savior directed His disciples to the newness of the evangelical life.
But being about to utter His divine oracles, He begins to rise higher; although He stood in a low place, yet as it is said, He lifted up his eyes. What is lifting up the eyes, but to disclose a more hidden light?
And although He speaks in a general way to all, yet more especially He lifts up His eyes on His disciples; for it follows, on his disciples, that to those who receive the word listening attentively with the heart, He might reveal more fully the light of its deep meaning.
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