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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 101:8
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, &e.] Of the land of Israel, signifying that he would make a general reformation throughout the kingdom; that as soon as wicked men were discovered in any part of the land, he would cut them off, would take the first opportunity of punishing them as the law directs: or he would do it “in morning” f1400, as in the Hebrew text; that is, every morning, constantly and continually; or it may be, mention is made of the morning because that was the usual time of hearing and judging causes, <242112>Jeremiah 21:12; or this may have respect to the spiritual reign of Christ, whose coming will be as the morning; when the heathens shall perish out of his land, when the sinners shall be consumed out of the earth, <191016>Psalm 10:16 and <119A435>Psalm 104:35, <661118> Revelation 11:18. The Targum agrees with this, “in the world to come, which is like to the light of the morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the earth:” that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord; from the city of Jerusalem, as the Targum and Kimchi interpret it; and it may be understood of the church of God, in the spiritual reign of Christ, into which shall enter no more the uncircumcised and the unclean; and all that offend and do iniquity shall be gathered out of it, <235201>Isaiah 52:1 <401341>Matthew 13:41; or of the New-Jersualemchurch-state, in the personal reign of Christ, into which no wicked doers will be admitted, but will remain for ever without, <662127>Revelation 21:27 and <662215>Revelation 22:15.
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