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"According to the multitude of their ungodlinesses drive them out:" that is, drive them out far away. For this is "according to the multitude of their ungodlinesses," 1 that they should be driven out far away. The ungodly then are driven out from that inheritance, which is possessed by knowing and seeing God: as diseased eyes are driven out from the shining of the light, when what is gladness to others is pain to them. Therefore these shall not stand in the morning, 2 and see. And that expression is as great a punishment, as that which is said, "But for me it is good to cleave to the Lord," 3 is a great reward. To this punishment is opposed, "Enter thou into the joy of Thy Lord;" 4 for similar to this expulsion is, "Cast him into outer darkness." 5
