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2632.—Suffering the Vengeance of Eternal Fire

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 21, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 12.

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2632.—Suffering the Vengeance of Eternal Fire.

Please explain Jude 7, "Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Does it mean that the people of these cities are now in misery? W. F.
It does not, any more than it means that they are now "giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh." The present tense is used to make the subject more vivid. The best commentary on Jude 7 is 2 Peter 2:6: "Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them ensamples unto those that should after live ungodly." What is the example that those cities now set before us?—Absolute destruction. Their loss is eternal, the effect of the eternal fire.