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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 83:4
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They have said, etc.] Secretly in their hearts, or openly to one another, and gave it out in the most public manner, as what they had consulted and determined upon; (see <197408>Psalm 74:8), come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; they were not content to invade their country, take their cities, plunder them of their substance, and carry them captives, but utterly to destroy them, root and branch; so that they might be no more a body politic, under rule and government, in their own land, nor have so much as a name and place in others; this was Haman’s scheme, (<170308>Esther 3:8,9) that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance; but this desperate and dreadful scheme, and wretched design of theirs, took not effect; but, on the contrary, the several nations hereafter mentioned, who were in this conspiracy, are no more, and have not had a name in the world for many hundreds of years; while the Jews are still a people, and are preserved, in order to be called and saved, as all Israel will be in the latter day, ( <451125>Romans 11:25). So Dioclesian thought to have rooted the Christian name out of the world; but in vain: the name of Christ, the name of Christianity, the name of a Christian church, will endure to the end of the world; (see <197217>Psalm 72:17 <201007>Proverbs 10:7). Compare with this (<241119>Jeremiah 11:19).
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