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Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 25:46

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Matthew25:46

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.

So then it seems, they shall rise as well as the other, tho they live in the Lands of the Grand Seignior, or the great Mogul, they shall not (as some filthy Dreamers have thought) have such a quiet sleep in the Graves, but that the sound of the last Trump shall awaken them. Nor are they out of the Jurisdiction of him, that shall be the Judge both of the quick and the dead. Nor shall they escape a Judgment without the Law, because they have sinned without the Law: For the invisible things of God, from the Creation of the World are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and God-head, Rom. 1.20. they shall perish (as they have sinned) without the Law, Rom. 2.12. They shall go into Everlasting punishment, not a Punishment for a time (as Origen thought.) But the Righteous, those who shall be so adjudged, being made so in this Life, by the imputed Righteousness of Christ, and Accepted as such, for their Holy and sincere Conversation, tho in many things imperfect, shall go into Life Eternal, which doth not signifie a meer Eternal Existence (for so the worst of Men shall live Eternally: Or else they could not be capable of Eternal punishment) but an Happy and Blessed Estate, which shall never have an end; and thus Eternal Life always signifieth in Scripture, being opposed to Eternal Death: Everlasting Fire, the Worm that never dieth, &c. Thus endeth Christ's▪ Kingdom of Grace: Or rather, thus shall begin his Kingdom of Glory: All his Enemies being put under his Feet, and none remaining but this Glorious King, and those who shall be his true Subjects. Of which Kingdom shall be no end.

Marginal references: Dan. 12.2. Joh. 5.29.

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