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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 9:5
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thou hast rebuked the Heathen, etc.] The people of the Philistines, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it, though some Jewish writers f151 understand it of Amalek the chief of the Heathen nations; but it rather refers to Gospel times, and to the rebukes of the Heathen, by the preaching of the Gospel, for their idolatry and superstition; and especially to the latter day, and to the rebukes of the antichristian states, the Papists who are called Gentiles; which will be with flames of fire, and will issue in their utter extirpation, upon which a profound peace and prosperity will succeed in the Christian churches, according to (<230204>Isaiah 2:4); which is a prophecy of those times; thou hast destroyed the wicked; the wicked man; for it is in the singular number, “labben”, as Aben Ezra observes, or who is meant by him; Goliath, according to the Targum and Kimchi; or Esau, as other Jewish writers f152, that is, his posterity the Edomites; and each of these were figures of antichrist, the man of sin, the wicked one, whom Christ will slay with the breath of his lips, (<231104>Isaiah 11:4); thou hast put out their name for ever and ever; that is, the glory and reputation of their name, a good and honourable one, which they sought to transmit to the latest posterity; for though the names of wicked men may continue, as Pharaoh, Judas, and others; yet they continue with a scandal and reproach upon them that shall never be wiped off, their names rot and stink; (see <201007>Proverbs 10:7); the whole of this denotes the utter ruin and shameful end of the enemies of Christ and his church, and which is matter of joy to the saints.
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