John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 2:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, etc.] Suddenly by death; or in a judicial way by the hand of the civil magistrate, before they have lived out half their days; and shall not enjoy the good things of the earth they have been seeking for, and laying up, and promising themselves a long and quiet possession of; but, on the contrary, like unfruitful trees, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire; and, however, shall not dwell in the second Adam’s earth, in the new earth, but shall perish out of his land, (<191016>Psalm 10:16); see (<193702>Psalm 37:2,9,22,28,38); and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it; such as have acted treacherously and perfidiouslyf51, and are opposed to upright men; as the wicked are to the righteous, pure, and spotless; these shall not only be cut off as trees to the stump, but be rooted up, and have neither root nor branch left them; they shall have no posterity to succeed them, and their memory shall utterly perish; (see <390401>Malachi 4:1); or “shall be scraped off”, or “swept away”f52, as the dust and dross of the earth, and the offscouring of all things.

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