Romans 2:5

after according to, in a way traceable to.

hardness insensibility, whether to love or reason.

treasurest up Possibly this word alludes to the "riches" of Romans 2:4; q. d., "the Divine store of loving-kindness is exchanged by the sinner for the Divine store of holy wrath".

unto thyself Emphatic; more than merely "for thee." The wrath is pure retribution, the result of sin. The sinner is the cause of his own doom.

against the day of wrath Lit. in the day of wrath; a pregnant phrase; "which will take effect inthe day." On "wrath," see note on Romans 1:18: "The day:" i.e. the definite time of the Lord's Appearing, to raise the dead (John 6:39-40; John 6:44; John 6:54; John 11:24); to judge the world (John 12:48; Acts 17:31); and to receive the saints to final glory (2 Timothy 4:8). In one remarkable passage (1 Corinthians 4:3) the Greek of the word "judgment" (in E. V.) is lit. "day;" and a probable account of this use of the word is the inseparable connexion of thought, in the early church, between the dayand the judgmentof the Lord.

revelation of the righteous judgment of God The "wrath" is as pure, just, and Divine as the mercy. Its "revelation" will be only the revelation of the absolute equity of "the Judge of all the earth." This deep righteousness of the Divine anger is its most awful element.