These things, at the first view, seem not to harmonize. So this passage may be explained. And this is a mode of teaching common in Scripture. He afterwards adds, a whirling or involving tempest , properly, a tempest gathering itself. The meaning then is, that God's vengeance would be fatal to all the wicked.
Many copies have w here before reo , as in the former passage, where it is omitted only in one copy.
This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on August 23, 2000.