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John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 24:6
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, &c.] The inhabitants of it, and the fruits upon it, alluding to the earth being cursed for the sin of man, when it brought forth briers and thorns; this may denote the seven vials of God’s wrath poured upon the earth, or the antichristian states. Some, by the curse, understand perjury or false swearing; so the Targum, “therefore, because of perjury (or a false oath) the earth is become a desert;” of which popes, and Popish princes, cardinals, priests, Jesuits, &c. have been notoriously guilty: and they that dwell therein are desolate: for want of houses, cities and towns being destroyed by war; or through famine, for want of provisions, the earth being cursed for their sins: or the words may be rendered, “for they that dwell therein are guilty”f480; of idolatry, bloodshed, perjury, thefts, sorcery, and all other abominations, (<660920>Revelation 9:20,21): therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned; their cities burnt with fire, and particularly the city of Rome; or their persons, their bodies burnt with burning fevers, and pestilential diseases; and their minds with envy, fury, and madness: this may be the same with the fourth vial poured upon the sun, when men will be scorched with fire and great heat, and blaspheme, (<661608>Revelation 16:8,9). The Vulgate Latin version here renders it, “shall be mad”; through the wrath of God poured out upon them: and few men left; but what shall be consumed by fire or sword, by famine or pestilence, or by one or other of the vials; and those that remain shall be frightened, and give glory to the God of heavens (<661113>Revelation 11:13).
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