"Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, And not light.
Rup.: “This sounds a strange woe. It had not seemed strange, had he said, ‘Woe to you, who fear not the Day of the Lord.’ For, ‘not to fear,’ belongs to bad, ungodly people. But the good may desire it, so that the Apostle says, ‘I desire to depart and to be with Christ’ Philippians 1:23. Yet even their desire is not without a sort of fear. For ‘who can say, I have made my heart clean?’ Proverbs 20:9. Yet that is the fear, not of slaves, but of sons; ‘nor hath it torment,’ 1 John 4:18, for it hath ‘strong consolation through hope’ Hebrews 6:18; Romans 5:2. When then he says, ‘Woe unto you that desire the Day of the Lord,’ he rebuketh their boldness, ‘who trust in themselves, that they are righteous’ Luke 18:9.” “At one and the same time,” says Jerome, “the confidence of the proud is shaken off, who, in order to appear righteous before people, are accustomed to long for the Day of Judgment and to say, ‘Would that the Lord would come, would that we might be dissolved and be with Christ,’ imitating the Pharisee, who spake in the Gospel, “God, I thank Thee, that I am not as other men are” Luke 18:11-12.