17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. …
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: …
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)These verses describe another sort of sinners who therefore go unpunished, because they go undiscovered. They rebel against the light , Job 24:13. Some understand it figuratively: they sin against the light of nature, the light of God’s law, and that of their own consciences; they profess to know God, but they rebel against the knowledge they have of him, and will not be guided and governed, comma…
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