Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
to try them--the design of affliction. Image from metals tried with fire.
to purge--Even in the elect there are dregs which need to be purged out (1 Peter 1:7). Hence they are allowed to fall for a time; not finally (2 Chronicles 32:31; Luke 22:31). Image from wheat cleared of its chaff by the wind.
make . . . white--image from cloth (Revelation 7:9).
to . . . time of . . . end--God will not suffer His people to be persecuted without limitation (1 Corinthians 10:13). The godly are to wait patiently for "the end" of "the time" of trial; "for it is (to last) yet for a time appointed" by God.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 13:9
Ezekiel 37:28
Daniel 8:17
Daniel 8:19
Daniel 9:27
Daniel 11:23
Daniel 11:33
Daniel 12:3
Daniel 12:10
Habakkuk 2:3
Zechariah 11:15
Zechariah 11:17
2 Thessalonians 2:6
2 Thessalonians 2:7
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