Verse 30
30-32. As God is to judge them "according to their ways" ( :-), their only hope is to "repent"; and this is a sure hope, for God takes no delight in judging them in wrath, but graciously desires their salvation on repentance.
I will judge you—Though ye cavil, it is a sufficient answer that I, your Judge, declare it so, and will judge you according to My will; and then your cavils must end.
Repent—inward conversion (Revelation 2:5). In the Hebrew there is a play of like sounds, "Turn ye and return."
turn yourselves, c.—the outward fruits of repentance. Not as the Margin, "turn others" for the parallel clause (Revelation 2:5- :) is, "cast away from you all your transgressions." Perhaps, however, the omission of the object after the verb in the Hebrew implies that both are included: Turn alike yourselves and all whom you can influence.
from all . . . transgressions—not as if believers are perfect; but they sincerely aim at perfection, so as to be habitually and wilfully on terms with no sin (Revelation 2:5- :):
your ruin—literally, "your snare," entangling you in ruin.
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