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John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 27:7
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? &c.] No; the Lord does smite his people by afflictive dispensations of his providence; he smites them in their persons, and families, and estates; (see <235717>Isaiah 57:17) as he smote Israel, by suffering them to be carried captive, and as the Jews are now smitten by him in their present state; yet not as he smote Pharaoh, with his ten plagues, and him and his host at the Red Sea; or as he smote Sennacherib and his army, by an angel, in one night; or as Amalek was smitten, and its memory perished; or as he will smite mystical Babylon, which will be utterly destroyed; all which have been smiters of God’s Israel, who, though smitten of God, yet not utterly destroyed; the Jews returned from captivity, and, though now they are scattered abroad, yet continue a people, and will be saved. God deals differently with his own people, his mystical and spiritual Israel, than with their enemies that smite them: he afflicts them, but does not destroy them, as he does their enemies; he has no fury in him towards his people, but he stirs up all his wrath against his enemies: [or], is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? or, “of his slain”f532; the Lord’s slain, or Israel’s slain, which are slain by the Lord for Israel’s sake; though Israel is slain, yet not in such numbers, to such a degree, or with such an utter slaughter, as their enemies; though the people of God may come under slaying providences, yet not such as wicked men; they are “chastened, but not killed”; and, though killed with the sword, or other instruments of death, in great numbers, both by Rome Pagan and Papal, yet not according to the slaughter as will be made of antichrist and his followers, (<661915>Revelation 19:15-21).
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