But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, the dignity of old age, and the gray hairs which he had reached with honor, and his excellent education from a child, or rather the holy laws of God’s ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them to quickly send him to Hades.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 23. The other. Lit. “hell,” or the grave. Bible.—Under the old law the saints could not enter heaven, but at their departure were detained in limbo. Worthington.—Some holy doctors have declared that they would rather go to hell than commit a sin. S. Ans.—They understand by hell the torments of that place, but not the opposition to God’s will, which is found in the damned, and constitutes one of the greatest of their pains. Bible.
The Greek text appears to be corrupt.
Some authorities read manner of life.
Greek legislation.