Verse 35
35. to try them—the design of affliction. Image from metals tried with fire.
to purge—Even in the elect there are dregs which need to be purged out ( :-). Hence they are allowed to fall for a time; not finally (2 Chronicles 32:31; Luke 22:31). Image from wheat cleared of its chaff by the wind.
make . . . white—image from cloth (Revelation 7:9).
to . . . time of . . . end—God will not suffer His people to be persecuted without limitation (1 Corinthians 10:13). The godly are to wait patiently for "the end" of "the time" of trial; "for it is (to last) yet for a time appointed" by God.
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