February 18, 2012
In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God around the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God’s visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God’s wonderful works towards them, remained (as verse 28) void of counsel, having no understanding inside them. Under all the cultivations of heaven, they brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit; as in the two verses next preceding the writing. – The expression I’ve chosen for my text, their foot shall slide in due time, generally seems to imply the following things, relating to the punishment and destruction that these wicked Israelites were exposed.
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February 18, 2012
We have often heard statements for example “War is hell” or “I went through hell.” These expressions are, obviously, not taken literally. Rather, they reflect our tendency to make use of the word hell as a descriptive term for ghastly human experience possible. Yet no human experience in this world is actually comparable to hell. If we try to imagine the worst of all possible suffering in the here and now we have not yet stretched our imaginations to achieve the dreadful reality of hell.
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