My comments on Mr. Clarke's comment shall follow it.
"Mat 25:41
Depart from me, ye cursed - Or, Ye cursed! depart. - These words are the address of the king to the sinners; and contain the reason why they are to be separated from blessedness: Ye are cursed, because ye have sinned, and would not come unto me that ye might have life. - No work of piety has proceeded from your hand, because the carnal mind, which is enmity against me, reigned in your heart; and ye would not have me to reign over you. Depart! this includes what some have termed the punishment of loss or privation. Ye cannot, ye, shall not be united to me - Depart! O terrible word! and yet a worse is to come.
Into everlasting fire - This is the punishment of sense. Ye shall not only be separated from me, but ye shall be tormented, awfully, everlastingly tormented in that place of separation.
Prepared for the devil and his angels - The devil and his angels sinned before the creation of the world, and the place of torment was then prepared for them: it never was designed for human souls; but as the wicked are partakers with the devil and his angels in their iniquities, in their rebellion against God, so it is right that they should be sharers with them in their punishment. We see here, plainly, why sinners are destroyed, not because there was no salvation for them, but because they neglected to receive good, and do good. As they received not the Christ who was offered to them, so they could not do the work of righteousness which was required of them. They are cursed, because they refused to be blessed; and they are damned, because they refused to be saved."
"No work of piety…" This may not strictly be true, as a man may have been saved once and at one time been pious, or pleasing to God. After his salvation the same man may have gone back to sinning, whereupon his previous piety or righteousness would be forgotten.
"The devil and his angels sinned before the creation of the world," I also don't know where he gets this, it could be correct or erroneous, but to the sense of his commentary it does not add or detract. It matters not when the angels sinned, the fact is, they did and everlasting fire was prepared for them. Into this everlasting fire sinners shall be cast.
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