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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 50:35

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, etc.] Or, “shall be”f995 or, “O sword, [be thou] on the Chaldeans”f996; that is, the sword of the Medes and Persians; those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; in the mystic sense, the Christian princes that shall draw the sword against the antichristian states: and upon the inhabitants of Babylon; the metropolis of Chaldea; the common people in it, as distinguished from those of high rank and degree following: and upon her princes; Belshazzar and his nobles, who were slain the night Babylon was taken: and upon her wise [men]; prime ministers, politicians, and counsellors of state; neither high birth nor great wisdom can secure from the sword of the enemy, when it has a commission from God, as it had here.
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