Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And these shall go away—these "cursed" ones. Sentence, it should seem, was first pronounced—in the hearing of the wicked—upon the righteous, who thereupon sit as assessors in the judgment upon the wicked (I Corinthians 6:2); but sentence is first executed, it should seem, upon the wicked, in the sight of the righteous—whose glory will thus not be beheld by the wicked, while their descent into "their own place" will be witnessed by the righteous, as BENGEL notes.
into everlasting punishment—or, as in Matthew 25:41, "everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Compare Matthew 13:42; II Thessalonians 1:9, etc. This is said to be "prepared for the devil and his angels," because they were "first in transgression." But both have one doom, because one unholy character.
but the righteous into life eternal—that is, "life everlasting." The word in both clauses, being in the original the same, should have been the same in the translation also. Thus the decisions of this awful day will be final, irreversible, unending.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 25:46:
Psalms 1:5
Matthew 3:10
Matthew 13:30-39
John 5:29
1 Corinthians 15:24
Revelation 20:15
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