| Geneva Study Bible Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. Wesley's Notes 19:29 Prepared - Although they be deferred for a time, yet they are treasured up for them. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 29. Their punishment is sure, fixed, and ready (compare Pr 3:34; 10:13). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 19:29. The unbelief of man shall not make God's threatenings of no effect. Christ himself, when bearing sins not his own, was not spared. Justice and judgment took hold of our blessed Surety; and will God spare obstinate sinners? Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary Verse 29 Note, 1. Scorners are fools. Those that ridicule things sacred and serious do but make themselves ridiculous. Their folly shall be manifest unto all men. 2. Those that scorn judgments cannot escape them, v. 28. The unbelief of man shall not make God's threatenings of no effect; those that devour iniquity swallow the hook with the bait. The civil magistrate has judgments prepared for scorners, for otherwise he would bear the sword in vain; but if he be remiss, and connive at sin, yet God's judgments slumber not; they are prepared, Mt. 25:41. |