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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 82:7
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But ye shall die like men, etc.] As men in common do, to whom it is appointed to die, (<580927>Hebrews 9:27) or as common men, as men in the lowest class of life: the wise man dies as the fool, the king as the peasant, high as the low, rich as the poor; death levels and makes all alike: or as Adam, as the first man, so Jarchi, who was lord of the whole universe; but being in honour, abode not, but became like the beasts that perish; sinning he died, and so all his posterity, even those who have the greatest power and authority on earth; (see <194902>Psalm 49:2,10,12) and not only die a corporeal death, but an eternal one, dying in their sins; as Christ threatened the Jewish rulers, Scribes, and Pharisees, if they believed not in him, (<430821>John 8:21,24) and fall like one of the princes; or the chief of them, Satan, who fell like lightning from heaven, (<421018>Luke 10:18) or rather as one of the giants that lived in the old world, famous for their injustice and oppression, that fell in the deluge, (<010604>Genesis 6:4) or any of the Heathen princes, tyrants and oppressors, such as are mentioned in the following psalm, (<198309>Psalm 83:9,10). This may have respect to the destruction of the Jewish nation, which is called the falling of them, ( <451111>Romans 11:11,12) and the words may be rendered, “and ye shall fall together, equally and alike, O ye princes” f1186; when the Jewish state, civil and ecclesiastical, fell, they fell with it, and together; the princes of this world then came to nought, or were abolished, they and their authority, as the Apostle Paul says they should, (<460206>1 Corinthians 2:6) the sceptre then departed from Judah, and the lawgiver from between his feet; all rule and authority ceased among them, as Jacob foretold it would, (<014910>Genesis 49:10).
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