Luke 21:36

To stand before the Son of man.— This does not seem to be merely the counter-part of escaping the things spoken of before: there were thousands of the Jews, that, by one providence or another, escaped temporal destruction, who could with no propriety be said to stand before the Son of man at his coming. This latter clause therefore, which seems to be an advance upon the former, is an allusion to the expression in Psalms 1:5.Nahum 1:6. (see also Wis 5:1.) and, in that sense, gives the context a greaterconnection and juster distinction, than the signification in which it is taken by most commentators.