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Mat 10:15. Ἀνεκτότερον, more tolerable) Therefore it is worse not to believe the Gospel, than to imitate the men of Sodom; see ch. Mat 11:22; Mat 11:24. There appears to be an hypallage, viz.: that city shall, on the day of judgment, undergo a heavier punishment than the land of Sodom and Gomorrha either endured of old, or shall receive at the judgment. If merely a brief[463] repulse shall be so heavily punished, what shall be their fate who resist more obstinately.
[463] In the original, “Si perbrevis repulsa tam graviter punietur:” where “perbrevis,” “very short,” does not imply that the impenitence and unbelief of the persons indicated was of short continuance, but that their actual refusal to receive the Gospel occupied only the same time as the brief visit of the Apostles whom they rejected.-(I. B.)