that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 20–21. He puts them in mind to be all of them reformed, to lay aside animosities, dissensions, swellings, [3] proceeding from pride, uncleanness, fornication, and so forth which indeed will be a humiliation and trouble to him, to be forced to use his power by severities; for if he find them such as he would not, they will also find him such as they would not. Witham.—Των μη μετανοησαντων. This, according to Saint Augustine, is spoken here of doing great penance for heinous sins, and not merely of repentance, as some moderns would fain interpret it. ep. 198.