Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Ver. 31. The righteous shall be recompensed,] i.e., Chastened, afflicted, "judged of the Lord, that they may not be condemned with the world," for their sufferings are not penal, but medicinal or probational; and they have it here in the earth, which is their house of correction, not in hell.
Much more the wicked.] Nahum 1:9. Non surget hic afflictio. These shall be totally and finally consumed at once. See Trapp on " 1Pe 4:17 " See Trapp on " 1Pe 4:18 " see also my "Love Tokens," page 69, &c.