But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. Compare 1 Samuel 15:32-33. The reference is to the awful destruction of Jerusalem; but it points to the final perdition of all who shall be found in open rebellion against Christ.
For Remarks on this section, see those at Matthew 25:14-30, at the close of that section.
It will be seen, from the parallels, that we are now coming to those scenes of which we have the concurrent records of all the Four Evangelists. And no wonder, considering how pregnant with the life of the world are those scenes of majesty and meekness, of grace and glory, of patience and power, of death, with elements of unutterable anguish, and life, with issues in its bosom inconceivably glorious. The river, the streams whereof make glad the City of God-but O, with what an awful gladness!-now parts, as befits the river of our Paradise, into its "four heads."