15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.



Ver. 15. And have hope toward God, which themselves also allow] The Jews generally believed no article of the faith more than this, Joh_12:24; Act_23:8. The primitive times yielded some that denied it, 1Co_15:12-19; so do these unhappy times of ours: we must all look to our standing, and get our hearts ballasted with grace (as the bee, when she is to fly against the wind, ballasteth her body with some little stone carried between her feet), that we be not whirled about with every wind of doctrine. A man is to expect, if he live out his days, to be urged to the breach of every branch of the Decalogue, and to be put to it in respect of every article of the creed. Provide for a storm: shipmen in a calm, or at a haven, look to their tacklings: see the ship be well ballasted, victualled, watered, &c.