Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Ver. 11. For our admonition] God hangs up some, as it were, in gibbets, for public example. See 1 Corinthians 10:6. Let us therefore set a memorandum upon God's punishments; and mark his spits with our stars. Let us be wise by other men's woes; take a pearl out of the serpent, a good stone out of the toad's head, suck sweet honey out of bitterest weeds, &c.
Upon whom the ends, &c.] These then are the last and worst days, the very lees and dregs of time. Now the worse the times are, the better we should be; and the rather, because an end of all things is at hand.