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John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 2:9
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself, &c.] Both high and low, rich and poor, bow down unto, humble themselves before, and worship idols made by the hands of men: the words for the “mean man” and “the great man” are µda and çya, “Adam” and “Ish”; and which are also interpreted by Jarchi of little or mean men, and of princes and mighty ones: therefore forgive them not; their sins of soothsaying, covetousness, and idolatry; and such that worship the beast and his image shall not be forgiven, but drink of the wine of divine wrath, and be tormented with fire for ever and ever, (<661409>Revelation 14:9-11). These are either the words of the prophet to the Lord representing the church, and imprecating evils on antichristian worshippers; or of the angel to the Christian powers, exhorting them not to spare Babylon, (<661806>Revelation 18:6,7) some refer these words to the mean and great men bowing down and humbling themselves, and read them in connection with them thus, “and lifts not up unto them”; that is, the head or soul; so Aben Ezra, who also observes, that the word “earth” may be wanting, and supplied thus, “and the earth shall not bear them”; they shall be destroyed from off it, both the idols and the worshippers of them. (see <191016>Psalm 10:16 104:35).
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