9. if . . . fruit, well--Genuine repentance, however late, avails to save (Lu 23:42, 43).
      after that, &c.--The final perdition of such as, after the utmost limits of reasonable forbearance, are found fruitless, will be pre-eminently and confessedly just (Pr 1:24-31; Eze 24:13).

JFB.