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MATTHEW 24:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 24:12Matt 24:14
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
But the one who endures to the end will be saved. The promise for the endurer: salvation for those who hold on through the tribulation. The endurance is the consistent call through Matthew's Gospel for the kind of faith that persists through tribulation and persecution rather than falling away (the rocky ground of Matthew 13:21 fell away; the endurer does not).

Church Fathers on Matthew 24:13

For what desert so many evils are to be brought upon Jerusalem, and the whole Jewish province the Lord shews, when He adds, 'Then shall they deliver you up, &c.'

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century

Or otherwise; The disciples when they heard these things which were spoken of Jerusalem might suppose that they should be beyond reach of harm, as though what they now heard was the sufferings of others, while they themselves should meet with nothing but prosperous times, He therefore announces the grievous things which should befal them, putting them in fear for themselves.

Chrysostom · 4th century

But how should the people of Christ be hated by the nations who dwelt in the uttermost parts of the earth? But one may perhaps say, that in this place all is put hyperbolically for many. But this that He says, 'Then shall they deliver you,' presents some difficulty; for before these things the Christians were delivered to tribulation. To this it may be answered, that at that time the Christians shall be more delivered to tribulation than ever.

Origen · 3rd century
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