They are written; in the Scriptures, as a warning to those who should live under the gospel.

The ends of the world; the ends of the ages, an expression nearly equivalent to the Old Testament phrase, "the last days," by which was represented the then distant future of the Christian dispensation. Compare Hebrews 9:26. The judgments of God against transgressors recorded in the Old Testament, were designed to deter us from imitating their example, that we may escape their ruin.

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Old Testament