active. We must regard the penal inflictions, therefore, as due to the exercise of God’s wrath upon the ungodly. There is a positive outgoing of the divine displeasure. The contention of Philippi that the term “reveal” can refer only to “an extraordinary revelation through miraculous acts” (ad loc.) and therefore only to that which is supernatural has much to support it in the New Testament use of the terms “reveal” and “revelation”. But to restrict the revelation of wrath spoken of to the final