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then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
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Verse 9. To reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment, and so forth That is, God many times does not punish the wicked in this life, he suffers them to run on in the ways of iniquity, with prosperity as to the enjoyment of a short and vain happiness in this world, but his judgments are most of all to be dreaded, when the punishments are reserved till the next life, as it will appear at the day of general judgment: and from the time of their death they shall be tormented in hell. Witham.
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