4. When we view the wicked simply as such, and not as our fellow humans,
our indignation against sin leads us entirely to coincide with the acts of
divine justice which punish evil, and to wish that justice might use her power
to restrain the cruel and unjust; but still the desires of this verse, as our
version renders it, are not readily made consistent with the spirit of the
Christian dispensation, which seeks the reformation of sinners rather than
their punishment. If we view the words as prophetic, we are probably nearer the
true meaning. What will be your lot when the Lord weighs out to you his wrath
not only in proportion to what you have actually done but according to what you
would have done if you could? Our endeavors are taken as facts.
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