Note, 1. The more sinners there are the more sin there is: When the
wicked, being countenanced by authority, grow numerous, and walk on
every side, no marvel if transgression increases, as a plague in the
country is said to increase when still more and more are infected with
it. Transgression grows more impudent and bold, more imperious and
threatening, when there are many to keep it in countenance. In the old
world, when men began to multiply, they began to degenerate and corrupt
themselves and one another. 2. The more sin there is the nearer is the
ruin threatened. Let not the righteous have their faith and hope
shocked by the increase of sin and sinners. Let them not say that they
have cleansed their hands in vain, or that God has forsaken the earth,
but wait with patience; the transgressors shall fall, the measure of
their iniquity will be full, and then they shall fall from their
dignity and power, and fall into disgrace and destruction, and the
righteous shall have the satisfaction of seeing their fall (Ps. xxxvii.
34), perhaps in this world, certainly in the judgment of the great day,
when the fall of God's implacable enemies will be the joy and triumph
of glorified saints. See Isa. lxvi. 24; Gen. xix. 28.