![]() ![]() In the nature of things, it is proper that we should undergo a trial before we receive our reward, or before we are punished and God has made it necessary and certain, by his direct and positive appointment, that we should stand at the bar of the final judge see Rom 14:10.Īll – Both Jews and Gentiles old and young bond and free rich and poor all of every class, and every age, and every nation. Before we receive our eternal allotment it is proper that we should render our account of the manner in which we have lived, and of the manner in which we have improved our talents and privileges. There is a necessity, or a fitness that we should appear there to give up our account, for we are here on trial: we are responsible moral agents we are placed here to form characters for eternity. This fact, to which Paul now refers, is another reason why it was necessary to lead a holy life, and why Paul gave himself with so much diligence and self-denial to the arduous duties of his office. It is proper, fit, necessary that we should all appear there. Rom 2:5-10 1Th 4:6 Judges 14, 15.įuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Collegesįor we must – ( dei). Their wages in the next world shall be according to their acts in this. ![]() Wiclif’s translation is more literal, ‘ the propre thingis of the bodi, as he hath don.’ This is the reason why Christians are to strive during the present life to be pleasing to God. ![]() The things done in his body) Literally, through the body. This, he adds, was “the most august representation of justice which the world at that time, or perhaps ever, exhibited.” it is used of the judge’s seat, which in the Roman basilica or judgment hall was “a lofty seat, raised on an elevated platform, so that the figure of the judge must have been seen towering above the crowd which thronged the long nave of the building.” Stanley. The, or ‘judgment seat’ ( trone, Wiclif), is in Classical Greek the pulpit from which the orators addressed the assemblies. Observe that ‘God’ is the word used in the latter passage, as though “the two ideas were convertible.” Stanley. ![]()
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