proper ; just as in a court of justice among men, it often occurs, that many things are wont to enter into the full view [aspect] of the deed incidentally. And in some such way as this also the good works of the reprobate will be made manifest. All things may be known in the light, but all do not know all things.
§ 10. This consideration ought to inspire us with fear for the future ; for it had this effect on the apostles, as this passage 2 Cor. y. shows. But if more tender souls shrink back from that manifestation, on account of their sins past ; when they have been duly instructed from what has been said, especially at § 6, they will acquiesce [acquire confidence in regard to the manifes- tation of all sins in the judgment]. Often does truth, which at first appeared bitter, become sweet after closer consideration. If I love any one as myself, he may, with my full acquiescence, know all things concerning me, which I know concerning my- self. We shall judge of many things differently, we shall feel differently on many subjects, until we arrive at that point.
Ko/x/cr^-ra/, may receive) This word is used not only regarding the reward or punishment, but also regarding the action , which the reward or punishment follows, Eph. vi. 8 ; Col. iii. 25 ; Gal. vi. 7. — exaarog, every one ) separately. — rd bid rou ed^urog) Man [along] with his body acts well or ill ; [therefore also] man [along] with his body receives the reward ; comp. Tertull. de resurr. carnis, c. 43. rd — nrpbg a, those inmost thoughts, accord- ing to which he performed outward actions . bid rou cd^urog,
while he was in the body, ver. 6, 8-iv. 10, comp, bid Bom. ii. 27. — sir s uya,6bv eire xaxov, whether good or had) construed with hath done. No man can do both good and evil at the same time.
11. 1ne/0o/ti g», we persuade) We bear ourselves so, by acting as well with vehemence, as also with sobriety [“ Whether we be beside ourselves , — or whether we be sober”~\ ver. 13, that men, unless they be unwilling, may be able to give us their approba- tion. Comp, what he says on conscience presently after, and at iv. 2. — Uei&eiVj dwyxdfyiv are opposed ; see at Chrysost. de
1 T ou (pofiou, the terror) Eccl. xii. 13. — V. g. — dvOpdirovg, men). By many the things which God Himself does are not approved; and how can His servants be approved by any with regard to those things which they do ? What is the counsel which His servants give [wtidopt v]? Thou hearest, reader, in this very passage. — Y. g.