2457.—M. M.—“More Tolerable.” Matt. 11:21-23.—No, the scriptures do not mean that the inhabitants of these cities will be saved, but rather the contrary; but the punishment which Tyre and Sidon and Sodom would receive would be more tolerable—easier to endure—than that which would be visited upon Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum. Those cities had light enough to save them, because there were those in them who were saved and who will demonstrate in the day of judgment that God gave sufficient light to those cities to save all who were there. But Capernaum had a superabundance of light; it ought to have been enough to lead to Christ. God gives sufficient light to any soul to believe. Some have rarer opportunities, but to all there is sufficient for salvation, and the great judgment day will justify God for all His graces.