Prophetic Expositions, vol. 1

XXII. THE XXVTH CHAPTER OF MATTHEW

This chapter does not, as has been supposed, describe the great trial, but the separation between the righteous and wicked, which will be accomplished by the resurrection of the just. And when the separation is accomplished, Christ will address each party, and show why he has made this separation. But through the whole scene, he acts the part of the executor of judgment. All nations will be before him, not in the body to be separated, but the living in the body and the dead in the spirit. They will be “judged, (tried) according to (by the same rule of) men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.” [Query. Did the judgment, or trial of the dead, begin or sit, when they took away the papal dominion in 1798? See Daniel 7:26, compared with Daniel 7:9, 10.] PREX1 54.1