[It will be remembered that the writer is speaking of repentance unto life. There is a sorrow of the world that worketh death (2 Cor. 7:10). Such was the remorse of Judas, and such the partial impressions of stony ground hearers. But a godly sorrow is far different from these, and, being the work of the Spirit of God, must abide. Various phases of divine life should be discriminated, but not separated. On the other hand, we could never say that a soul had passed from death to life, until there was manifest faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. ED.]