And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Ver. 4. Where is the promise, &c.] The sleeping of vengeance causeth the overflow of sin (the sinner thinks himself hail-fellow a with God, Psa 50:21), and the overflow of sin causeth the awakening of vengeance.
a On such terms, or using such freedom with another, as to accost him with ‘hail, fellow!'; on a most intimate footing; over familiar or unduly intimate. ŒD