The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Mark 10:30
But he shall receive an hundred fold now in this time…
Not that he should have an hundred houses, brethren… but that he
should enjoy that even in this present life, which was an hundred
times better than any of the things mentioned; namely,
houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and
lands; (See Gill on 19:29) it is added here,
with persecutions.
The Syriac and Ethiopic versions read in the
singular, "with persecution"; signifying that this must be expected
amidst the greatest happiness, and highest enjoyments of this life;
though often even that which the saints enjoy, whilst they are, in
the severest manner, persecuted for Christ, is an hundred times
better than, yea, infinitely above, all that they part with, or lose
for his sake; and so is an ample compensation for all: and yet this
is not all they shall have; for it follows,
and in the world to come eternal life:
so that they will be doubly
recompensed; once in this life, and again in the other world: in the
Targum on (Song of Solomon 8:7) is a passage somewhat like this, where the Lord of
the world is represented saying;
``if a man will give all the substance of his house to
obtain wisdom in the captivity, I will return unto him,
(ytad amlel lwpk) , "double in the world to come".''
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