Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation… 1. They whose course and trade of life is in sin most resemble Satan. 2. Torments cannot reform devils. Hellish horrors cannot change hellish hearts. 3. Restraint much differs from reformation. Devils may have a chain upon them and yet no change within them. 4. Satan can do nothing but by God's permission. 5. Satan cannot hurt us, unless he gets us within the compass of his chain. 6. God can make an offender his own afflicter, a terror to himself, and constantly to carry his own chains of terror and torment about him. Powder which blows up the house cannot itself escape from burning. 7. There is no liberty to be found in forsaking God's service. A saint loses nothing but his bonds and fetters by becoming holy; nor is holiness a chain to any, but those who know no other freedom than a house of bondage. 8. The pleasures of sin bear no proportion to the horrors thereof. (W. Jenkyn, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. |
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