17. Solution of it. There is a coming judgment in which God will vindicate His righteous ways. The sinner's "time" of his unrighteous "work" is short. God also has His "time" and "work" of judgment; and, meanwhile, is overruling, for good at last, what seems now dark. Man cannot now "find out" the plan of God's ways ( Ecclesiastes 3:11 ; Psalms 97:2 ). If judgment instantly followed every sin, there would be no scope for free will, faith, and perseverance of saints in spite of difficulties. The previous darkness will make the light at last the more glorious. there — ( Psalms 97:2- : ) in eternity, in the presence of the Divine Judge, opposed to the "there," in the human place of judgment ( Psalms 97:2- : ): so "from thence " ( Psalms 97:2- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-18" class="com-number"
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