Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
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Gill's Exposition
Who shall give account to him,.... "To God himself", as the Syriac version reads; of all their blasphemies, and hard speeches spoken by them against God, Christ, the Gospel, and good men, and receive…
Barnes' Notes
Who shall give account - That is, they shall not do this with impunity. They are guilty in this of a groat wrong and they must answer for it to God. That is ready to judge - That is, “who is prepared…
Adam Clarke
To judge the quick and the dead - They shall give account of these irregularities to Him who is prepared to judge both the Jews and the Gentiles. The Gentiles, previously to the preaching of the…
I. Here you have the visible change wrought in those who in the foregoing verse were represented as having been in the former part of their life very wicked. They no longer run on in the same courses,…
Cambridge Bible
who shall give account The phrase is one of the many echoes in this Epistle of our Lord's teaching (Luk 16:2). The thought of the Final Judgment from which there will be no appeal is made here, as in…
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