ISAIAH 26
— 9 and 21. “The inhabitants of the earth”; compare Apocalypse 3: 10 (Revelation 3:10), “Them that dwell upon earth.” Note the difference, too, between 2 Peter 2:9, where the comparison is with Noah and Lot, who passed through the tribulation, and [p. 39] Apocalypse 3: 10 (Revelation 3:10). In Peter, we have rhuesthai ek peirasmou (deliver from temptation) and in the Apocalypse tereso ek tes horas tou peirasmou (I will keep from the hour of temptation). The difference is evident, and confirms the force of this latter, as interpreted, for the deliverance of the faithful Remnant; quod nota.
This chapter specially belongs to Judah, and the circumstances connected with that, before the indignation be overpast.