18. warning . . . speakest to warn--The repetition implies that it
is not enough to warn once in passing, but that the warning is to be
inculcated continually
(2Ti 4:2,
"in season, out of season";
Ac 20:31,
"night and day with tears").
save--Eze 2:5
had seemingly taken away all hope of salvation; but the reference there
was to the mass of the people whose case was hopeless; a few
individuals, however, were reclaimable.
die in . . . iniquity--
(Joh 8:21, 24).
Men are not to flatter themselves that their ignorance, owing to the
negligence of their teachers, will save them
(Ro 2:12,
"As many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without
law").
JFB.
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