4The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
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The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4)Note, 1. That God is the first cause. He is the former of all things and all persons, the fountain of being; he gave every creature the being it has and appointed it its place. Even the wicked are his creatures, though they are rebels; he gave them those powers with which they fight against him, which aggravates their wickedness, that they will not let him that made them rule them, and therefore,…
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