Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Matthew: Chapter 10].
you (10:20). Here is no posing as martyr or courting a martyr's
crown, but real heroism with full loyalty to Christ.
10:22 {Ye shall be hated} (\esesthe misoumenoi\). Periphrastic
future passive, linear action. It will go on through the ages.
{For my name's sake} (\dia to onoma mou\). In the O.T. as in the
Targums and the Talmud "the name" as here stands for the person
(Mt 19:29; Ac 5:41; 9:16; 15:26). "He that endureth to the end"
(\ho hupomeinas eis telos\). Effective aorist participle with
future indicative.
10:23 {Till the Son of man be come} (\he•s elth•i ho huios tou
anthr•pou\). Moffatt puts it "before the Son of man arrives" as
if Jesus referred to this special tour of Galilee. Jesus could
overtake them. Possibly so, but it is by no means clear. Some
refer it to the Transfiguration, others to the coming of the Holy
Spirit at Pentecost, others to the Second Coming. Some hold that
Matthew has put the saying in the wrong context. Others bluntly
say that Jesus was mistaken, a very serious charge to make in his
instructions to these preachers. The use of \he•s\ with aorist
subjunctive for a future event is a good Greek idiom.
10:25 {Beelzebub} (\beezeboul\ according to B, \beelzeboul\ by
most Greek MSS., \beelzeboub\ by many non-Greek MSS.). The
etymology of the word is also unknown, whether "lord of a
dwelling" with a pun on "the master of the house"
(\oikodespot•n\) or "lord of flies" or "lord of dung" or "lord of
idolatrous sacrifices." It is evidently a term of reproach. "An
opprobrious epithet; exact form of the word and meaning of the
name have given more trouble to commentators than it is all
worth" (Bruce). See Mt 12:24.
10:26 {Fear them not therefore} (\m• oun phob•th•te autous\).
Repeated in verses 28 and 31 (\m• phobeisthe\ present middle
imperative here in contrast with aorist passive subjunctive in
the preceding prohibitions). Note also the accusative case with
the aorist passive subjunctive, transitive though passive. See
same construction in Lu 12:5. In Mt 10:28 the construction is
with \apo\ and the ablative, a translation Hebraism as in Lu
12:4 (Robertson, _Grammar of the Greek N.T. in the Light of
Historical Research_, p. 577).
10:28 {Destroy both soul and body in hell} (\kai psuch•n kai s•ma
apolesai en geenn•i\). Note "soul" here of the eternal spirit,
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