Matthew 24:45

45. Servant Our Lord now slightly changes the image from a householder watching for the thief, to a servant waiting for his master.

The family here is properly the Church of God, considered as a great congregation, through all ages, waiting for the coming of Christ. It is that Church of all ages to whom he said of the Lord’s supper: “Ye do show forth the Lord’s death until he come.” The servant seems to be more specially the ministry of Christ through the ages; to whom he said: “Lo, I am with you until the end of the world.”