Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1910

Missing the Point

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Christian Work, having asked what Paul meant when he said, “We shall judge angels,” received the reply:—

Prof. Marcus Dods, in his “Commentary on First Corinthians,” says Paul means just what he says: “The saints are destined to judge the world, to judge angels; that is to say, to judge persons in separation from earthly interests, to judge unclothed detached spirits.” My personal opinion is that you know what St. Paul meant just about as well as anybody else ever did, except himself. No commentator whom I have consulted knows anything further than what St. Paul simply says: “We shall judge angels.”

The comments hardly leave it as Paul says it. How simple is the apostle’s statement in the light of the fact that the saints take part with Christ in judgment during the thousand years, at the end of which both evil men and evil angels, including Satan, are destroyed in the lake of fire. Revelation 20.