8. But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth,
&c.--referring to such keen and determined resistance to the Gospel as
he himself had too painfully witnessed on the part of his own
countrymen. (See
Ac 13:44-46; 17:5, 13; 18:6, 12;
and compare
1Th 2:15, 16).
indignation and wrath--in the bosom of a sin-avenging God.
JFB.
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