CHAP. VII.
THat they all might be damned, who believed not the truth, but had* 1.1 pleasure in unrighteousnesse.
This Verse windes up Pauls prophecie of the Antichrist and his followers.
It hath two parts in it. The first shewes us the last of Antichrist and his subjects, viz. their finall damnation. The last part is an exegefis of the two foregoing verses.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that they might be damned. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is here used for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the word properly signifies to judge; but in the worser sense it is often in the New Testament put for to condemn, as Luke 19. 22. Out of thy mouth, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. I condemne thee; and* 1.2 so generally Expositors understand it, that their judging here shall be, cum judicio damnationis, with the judgement of damna∣tion▪ Here we have the dreadfull Catastrophe of Antichrist, but especially his companions, his men of name: and something more me thinks I see as matter of comfort in the Text, viz. the time when he shall be thus with his followers damned, or cast into hell, as Revel. 19. 20. expresseth it. Compare it with 2 Tim. 3. 8, 9. and it informes us, that they shall proceed no further then to oppose the Witnesses, as Iannes and Iambres did Moses & Aaron,