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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 109:9
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.] This sometimes is the case of good men, who leave widows and fatherless children, whom the Lord shows mercy to; being the Father of the fatherless, and the Judge of the widow, (<196805>Psalm 68:5), but sometimes it is threatened and comes as a judgment, when the Lord shows no mercy and favour to them, (<022224>Exodus 22:24 <230917>Isaiah 9:17). And this is the case here, which very probably was literally fulfilled in Judas, who might have a wife and children; since it looks as if the other apostles had, and certain it is that one of them had a wife, even Peter, in the times of Christ; (see <460905>1 Corinthians 9:5 <400814>Matthew 8:14). And this was verified in the people of the Jews; whom the Lord divorced from himself, and wrote a “loammi” upon them, and left them as orphans and fatherless, (<280109>Hosea 1:9). This will never be the case of Christ’s people, or the Christian church, (<431418>John 14:18), though it will be of the antichristian one, (<661807>Revelation 18:7,8).
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