Anathema and Grace.
I. This passage shows the terror of the fate of the unloving.
II. The present grace of the coming Lord.
III. The tenderness caught from the Master Himself, in the servant who rebukes.
A. Maclaren, The Unchanging Christ,p. 260.
References: 1 Corinthians 16:22. Talmage, Christian World Pulpit,vol. viii., p. 121; A. Mursell, Ibid.,vol. xxv., p. 252; Mason, Contemporary Pulpit,vol. ii., p. 293.