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Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 20:13

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Revelation20:13

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works .

By Hell is meant all places where the Dead are; whosoever shall be at that day in the state of the Dead; the Bodies of Men whether buried in the Earth or Sea; and the Souls of Men whether they be in the place of Torments or Happiness, shall all be re-united to their Bodies, that they may both in Soul and Body receive their final doom of Eternal Happiness, or Eternal Misery, accordingly as they have lived in the World; and those who shall be alive at that day, who shall be Changed (as the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 15.51.) are to be counted dead in the sence of this Text (their Change being instead of Death to them.)

It is not said they shall be judged for their works ▪ (though that as to the Wicked is true) but according to their works; which is true as to the Elect, who though their Names be written in the Book of Life, yet must work Righteousness, and they shall have Judgment of Absolution, not according to the Perfection, but the sincerity of their works done, in obedience to the Will of God.

Marginal references: Or, the Gra[illegible: 1 letter]e.

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