warning ... speakest to warn - The repetition implies that it is not enough to warn once in passing, but that the warning is to be inculcated continually (2Ti 4:2, “in season, out of season”; Act 20:31, “night and day with tears”).
save - Eze 2:5 had seemingly taken away all hope of salvation; but the reference there was to the mass of the people whose case was hopeless; a few individuals, however, were reclaimable.
die in ... iniquity - (Joh 8:21, Joh 8:24). Men are not to flatter themselves that their ignorance, owing to the negligence of their teachers, will save them (Rom 2:12, “As many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law”).