4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: …
But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-7)To quicken and excite us to a serious minding and firm adhering to what God has revealed to us by the prophets and apostles, we are told that there will be scoffers , men who will make a mock of sin , and of salvation from it. God’s way of saving sinners by Jesus Christ is what men will scoff at, and that in the last days , under the gospel. This indeed may seem very strange, that the New-Testamen…
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