Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Who will render to every man according to his deeds. This great truth (taken from Proverbs 24:12, as in the Septuagint), which is the key to the whole reasoning of this chapter, is in the next four verses applied to the two classes into which all mankind will at the great day be found to have ranged themselves, showing that the final judgment will turn upon character alone.