42. Ovx., K.T.\., not, etc.) Sins of omission.
44. Ka/ auro/, jc.r.X., £/i£*/ a£so, etc.) The process is distinctly described : they will answer either altogether or one by one. — fore, JC.T-.X., when, etc.) The ignorance of the wicked, and their endeavour to justify themselves, will remain up to that time.
45. TO-JTUV ruv sXa^iffruv, of the least of these} Our Lord does not add, My brethren, as in ver. 40. The wicked are ignorant of the relation which the righteous stand in to Christ, and will remain so.
46. ' AviXivffovrai, shall depart) The place of judgment is dis tinct from the places into which the two classes will severally depart. — xfaaaiv, punishment^ There is a difference between rifAupia, vengeance, and xoXa<r/j, punishment ; for punishment is inflicted for the sake of him who suffers : vengeance for the satis faction of him who inflicts it ; see Arist. Rhet. i. 10, n. 31.2 — a/uviov, eternal) Eternal* signifies that which reaches and passes the limits of earthly time : cf. Gnomon on Rom. xvi. 25. — oi dt, x.r.X., lui the, etc.) Christ the King shall first address the righteous, in the hearing of the unrighteous ; but the unrighteous shall first depart, in the sight of the righteous ; see ch. xiii. 49, 50. Thus the damned will see nothing of eternal life, though the righteous will see the vengeance inflicted on the damned. — dixaioi, righteous) declared to be so by this very judgment.
1 " Of fire, see ver. 41. Righteous King, grant that I may hereafter find myself standing on the right hand." — B. G. V.
2 In the Oxford edition of 1833, I. 10, § 17.— I. B.
3 The Bible has no metaphysical distinctions, therefore it has no one word to express eternity ; this it expresses by long periods joined with one another indefinitely. Aiuvs; = a*ekf9t ceva : very long periods, which, multiplied indefinitely, give the only notion we can form of eternity. "np» (Th. Spos, terminus), a definite space of time : xa/po?, the time, the jit time : xpwos, time, in its actuality, marking succession : »luv, an indefinite course of time, without the notion of an end. See Tittm. Syn. Gr. Test. 'Aw' etluvuv = from all eternity, a parte ante. E/f TOV; ctiava,;= to all eternity, for ages, for ever, a parte post. As these phrases are applied to the eternity of God Himself, and as, moreover, aiuvto; is applied to £«»), which none deny to mean everlasting life, no objections (such as have been lately raised), from the meaning of ctiav, will hold good against the everlasting duration of punishment — ED.