<p>2:9- see on Rom. 2:23.<br /><i>Tribulation</i>- We have the choice of tribulation now for the sake of living the truly Christian life (e.g. Mt. 13:21), or tribulation at the hands of God and His Son and their Angels at the last day.&nbsp;<i>Tribulation&nbsp;</i>wasexactly what the apostate Christians were trying to avoid will come upon them at judgment day. The 'persecution' or 'chasing' is perhaps a reference to the Angel of the Lord chasing the rejected like chaff away from the judgment seat- the Angel will &quot;persecute&quot; the rejected along dark and slippery paths (Ps. 35:6).</p><p><i>And anguish&shy;-</i>&nbsp;lit. 'narrowness of room'. They will have no place to run, compared to the sense of largeness and freedom which will be and is with God's accepted people. The anguish will not just be upon 'men' but upon every individual&nbsp;<i>psuche</i>&nbsp;(s.w. heart, life, mind) of man who has been disobedient. The suggestion is that the punishment will be psychological, a mental trauma.</p><p><i>Upon every soul of man that works evil- </i>1:32 has warned that those who don't so much do the evil but vicariously agree with it are just as culpable. The 'doing' is therefore as much mental as physical.</p><p><i>Of the Jew first and also of the Gree</i><i>k</i>- Because the Jews have or had greater responsibility to Divine judgment?<br /></p>