Our old
Baptist brother John Gill considered this chapter a “vindication of the justice
and equity of the divine procedure against men, … concluding that such, be they
who they will, Jews or Gentiles, are inexcusable … that the judgment of God, in
the condemnation of them, is right … cannot possibly be escaped.” Just as with
the promised second coming of Christ, there are some who say since it’s delayed
(Christ’ return or His judgment on sin), it must not be real. This is another
evidence of the unrighteous suppressing their knowledge of the Truth. The
covenant with Noah gives even reprobates seed time and harvest, but that kind
provision of God will cease when this age is brought to an end by the glorious
return of Christ Jesus.