But the path of the just is as the shining light,
That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
The way of the wicked is as darkness:
They know not at what they stumble.
Marked is the different thus presented. The path of righteous, leading onward and upward to that city where the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof, shines brighter and brighter as the uncreated glory from that city of bliss illuminates it with splendor.
Who would not cry, “Let me die the death of the righteous; let my last, and be like his”?
A far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory is at the end of that path.
Alas! how great the contrast when we turn to the way of the lawless. As their road nears to the pit of woe, darkness begins to envelope it; the awful Stygian smoke of the abyss obscuring even the light of nature and revelation alike: so that men stumble blindly on knowing not what causes them to fall. The end we well know-eternal punishment from the presence of God.
With two such a path to choose between, the admonition that immediately follows may well be borne in upon the soul.
(Commentary by H.A. Ironside)