After these days, everyone departed to his own inheritance. Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Flesh, which is thus punished for ever, (Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei xxv. 4.) while the soul is still more tormented with the loss of God’s vision. Worthington.—The bodies of those who persecute God’s people, will not only be thrown out with ignominy, but the impenitent shall suffer eternal torments. These worms and fires do not cease. They are not merely figurative, but real, according to the Fathers. Serar. q. 1. Tirinus. Essais de Mor.—Though the damned have not yet their bodies, they are no less affected with pain; as people who have lost a member, often seem to feel pain in it. That our soul should even now suffer, when the body is hurt, depends on God’s appointment. The Jews spoke of eternal torments in similar terms. Sirach 7:19. Isaiah 66:24. Mar. 9:45.