Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 8:35

35 For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospels the same shall save it.

We met with this Argument twice in Matthew, to the Notes upon which I refer the Reader, Mark adds those words, and for [illegible: 1 letter]he Gospel, thereby teaching us that a suffering for the sake of the Gospel, which therefore owning the Propositions of it, or living up to the Precepts, is by Christ accounted a suffering [illegible: 1 letter]or Christs sake. [non-Latin text not transcribed] here must signifie Life, (as it is translated) for a Man cannot lose his Soul for Christs sake and the Gospels. The meaning is, He that will deny, and abandon me, and my Gospel, out of a desire to save his temporary Life, shall lose it, or at least shall lose his Souls portion in a better Life. But he that is willing to lose his Life, or will run the hazard of it, for my sake, for his owning, and professing me, and the Faith of my Gospel, or living up to the rules, shall either save it in Specie, by the special workings of my providence for him, delivering him out of his Persecutors hands, or shall be recompensed with an eternal Life, of much more value.

Marginal references: Joh. 12.25.