Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is
now
perished
Not that the separate spirits of the dead are without their
affections, or these unexercised; the spirits of just men made
perfect will love God and Christ, and angels, and good men, and
all that is good, more intensely; love will continue after this
life, and be in its height, and therefore said to be the greatest
grace, ( 1
Corinthians 13:13 ) ; they will hate sin, Satan, and all the
enemies of Christ, and be filled with zeal for his glory; so the
word F26 for envy may be rendered; see (
Revelation 6:9 Revelation
6:10 ) ; and the spirits of the wicked dead will still
continue to love sin, and hate the Lord, and envy the happiness
of the saints; and will rise again with the same spite and malice
against them; see ( Ezekiel
32:27 ) ( Revelation
20:8 Revelation
20:9 ) ; but this respects persons and things in this world;
they no more love persons and things here, nor are loved by any;
death parts the best friends, and the most endearing and loving
relations, and puts an end to all their mutual friendship and
affection; they hate their enemies no more, nor are hated by
them; they no more envy the prosperity of others, nor are envied
by others; all such kind of love and hatred, enmity and envy,
active or passive, cease at death; out of the world, as the
Targum adds; neither have they any more a portion for ever
in any [thing] that is
under the sun:
the worldly man's portion is only in this life, and when he dies,
he carries nothing of it with him; whose ever his possessions
will be at death, they are no more his, nor will he ever return
to enjoy them any more; his houses, his lands, his estates, his
gold and silver, and whatever of worth and value he had, he has
no more lot and part in them: but the good man has a portion
above the sun; God is his portion, heaven is his inheritance for
ever and ever. The Targum understands it of the wicked;
``and they have no good part with the righteous in the world to come; and they have no profit of all that is done in this world under the sun.''
F26 (Mtanq) "aemulatio ipsorum", Cocceius, Gejerus; "aelus eorum", Drusius, Amana, Rambachius.