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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 58:6
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He shall judge among the Heathen, etc.] Either rule among the Gentiles, making them through his Gospel obedient by word and deed, and so reigning in their hearts by his Spirit and grace; and, by making many converts among them, enlarge his dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth: or inflict judgments on the Heathen; that is, the Papists, as they are called. These are the Gentiles to whom the outward court is given; the nations that will be angry when the time of his wrath, and to judge the dead, is come; and whom Christ will break in pieces with his iron rod; and are the Heathen that shall perish out of his land, when he is King over all the earth, (<661102>Revelation 11:2,18 19:15 <191016>Psalm 10:16). He shall fill the places with the dead bodies: the Targum adds, “of the ungodly that are slain;” namely, at the battle of Armageddon; when the fowls of the air shall be called to eat the flesh of kings, captains, and mighty men; of horses and their riders; of all men, bond and free, great and small, (<661917>Revelation 19:17,18). He shall wound the heads over many countries; that is, kings over many countries; as the Targum explains it: it is to be read in the singular number, “he shall wound the heads over a large country” f1582; him who is the head over a large country; meaning either Satan, the god of this world, the wicked one, under whom the world lies; and who has deceived the inhabitants of the earth, and rules them at his pleasure; him Christ has wounded and bruised, even his head; destroyed him and all his power, policy, schemes, and works, agreeably to the first hint concerning him, (<010315>Genesis 3:15 <580214>Hebrews 2:14 <620308>1 John 3:8) or else antichrist, who is head over a large country, or many countries; the whore that sits on many waters, which are people, nations, and tongues, and reigns over the kings of the earth; who has seven heads and ten horns; one of whose heads has been wounded already, of which it has been curing again; but ere long this beast will receive such a wound from Christ, as that he will never recover of it; when he shall consume him with the breath of his mouth, and the brightness of his coming; (see <661702>Revelation 17:2,15,18 13:1,3) (<530208>2 Thessalonians 2:8). Musculus renders it, “the head of the country of Rabbah”: and refers it to David’s conquest of the king of the Ammonites, whose head city was Rabbah, (<132001>1 Chronicles 20:1,2).
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