A89503:642
A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude
A practical commentary, or An exposition with notes on the Epistle of Jude. Delivered (for the most part) in sundry weekly lectures at Stoke-Newington in Middlesex. By Thomas Manton, B.D. and minister of Covent-Garden.
London: printed by J.M. for Luke Fawn, 1658
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IN this verse is the third example, fitly suited to the former, the Angels had the blessings of Heaven, the Israelites of the Church, and Sodom of the World. But the Angels upon their Apostasy lost Heaven; the murmuring Israelites were shut out of Canaan; and the Sodomites were together with their fruitful soil and pleasant land destroyed; you see Heaven mercies, and Church mercies, and World mercies are all forfeited by the Creatures ingratitude. This last instance is propounded as the first part of a similitude, the reddition of which is in the next verse.
IN this verse is the third example, fitly suited to the former, the Angels had the blessings of Heaven, the Israelites of the Church, and Sodom of the World. But the Angels upon their Apostasie lost Heaven; the murmuring Israelites were shut out of Canaan; and the Sodomites were together with their fruitful soil and pleasant land destroyed; you see Heaven mercies, and Churth mercies, and World mercies are all forfeited by the Creatures ingratitude. This last instance is propounded as the first part of a similitude, the reddition of which is in the next verse.
In the words observe, 1. The places or people judged, [Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Cities round about them in like manner] those two Cities are only mentioned here, as also Gen. 19. 14. because the principal, in Hosea 11. 8. two others are only mentioned Admah and Zeboim, but Deut. 29. 23. all four are mentioned, the whole land is brimstone, salt and burning like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim which the Lord overthrew in his anger and in his wrath. Now the Cities are mentioned rather then the Persons to note the utter destruction of the places together with the inhabitants; for that clause [the Cities about them in like manner] in the original [Greek or Hebrew], the word for [them] is in the masculine gender; whereas [Cities] the next Antecedent is in the feminine; therefore some refers it to the remote Antecedent the Angels and Israelites as they were punished, so Sodom and those Cities in like manner.