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CHAP. XXXII.
Still
we are upon the destruction of Pharaoh and
Egypt, which is wonderfully enlarged upon, and with
a great deal of emphasis. When we read so very much of Egypt's ruin, no less than six several prophecies at
divers times delivered concerning it, we are ready to think, Surely there is
some special reason for it. And, I. Perhaps it may look as far back as the
book of Genesis, where we find (ch. xv. 14) that God determined to
judge Egypt for oppressing his people; and, though that was in part fulfilled
in the plagues of Egypt and the drowning of Pharaoh, yet, in this destruction,
here foretold, those old scores were reckoned for, and that was to have its
full accomplishment. II. Perhaps it may look as far forward as the book of the
Revelation, where we find that the great enemy of the gospel-church, that
makes war with the Lamb, is spiritually called Egypt, Rev. xi. 8. And, if so,
the destruction of Egypt and its Pharaoh was a type of the destruction of that
proud enemy; and between this prophecy of the ruin of Egypt and the prophecy
of the destruction of the antichristian generation there is some analogy. We
have two distinct prophecies in this chapter relating to Egypt, both in the
same month, one on the 1st day, the other that day fortnight, probably both on
the sabbath day. They are both lamentations, not only to signify how
lamentable the fall of Egypt should be, but to intimate how much the prophet
himself should lament it, from a generous principle of love to mankind. The
destruction of Egypt is here represented under two similitudes:-- 1. The
killing of a lion, or a whale, or some such devouring creature, ver. 1-16. 2.
The funeral of a great commander or captain-general, ver. 17-32. The two
prophecies of this chapter are much of the same length.
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1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in
the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word
of the LORD came unto me,
saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art
as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst
the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. 3 Thus saith
the Lord GOD;
I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people;
and they shall bring thee up in my net. 4 Then will I leave thee
upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all
the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the
whole earth with thee. 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the
mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. 6 I will also
water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the
mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. 7 And when I
shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark;
I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her
light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over
thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known. 10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their
kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before
them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own
life, in the day of thy fall. 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD;
The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. 12 By the
swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the
nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the
multitude thereof shall be destroyed. 13 I will destroy also all
the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man
trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. 14
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil,
saith the Lord GOD.
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be
destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell
therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the
daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even
for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Here, I. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king
of Egypt, v. 2. It concerns ministers to be much of a serious
spirit, and, in order thereunto, to be frequent in taking up lamentations for
the fall and ruin of sinners, as those that have not desired, but dreaded, the
woeful day. Note, Ministers that would affect others with the things of God
must make it appear that they are themselves affected with the miseries which
sinners bring upon themselves by their sins. It becomes us to weep and tremble
for those that will not weep and tremble for themselves, to try if thereby we
may set them a weeping, set them a trembling.
II. He is ordered to show cause for that lamentation.
1. Pharaoh has been a troubler of the nations, even of his own nation, which
he should have procured the repose of: He is like a young lion of the
nations (v. 2), loud and noisy, hectoring and threatening as a lion
when he roars. Great potentates, if they by tyrannical and oppressive, are in
God's account no better than beasts of prey. He is like a whale, or
dragon, like a crocodile (so some) in the seas, very turbulent and
vexatious, as the leviathan that makes the deep to boil like a pot,
Job xli. 31. When Pharaoh engaged in an unnecessary war with the Cyrenians he came
forth with his rivers, with his armies, troubled the waters,
disturbed his own kingdom and the neighbouring nations, fouled the rivers,
and made them muddy. Note, A great deal of disquiet is often given to the
world by the restless ambition and implacable resentments of proud princes.
Ahab is he that troubles Israel, and not Elijah.
2. He that has troubled others must expect to be himself troubled; for the
Lord is righteous, Josh. vii. 25.
(1.) This is set forth here by a comparison. Is Pharaoh like a great whale,
which, when it comes up the river, gives great disturbance, a leviathan which
Job cannot draw out with a hook? (Job xli. 1), yet God has a net for
him which is large enough to enclose him and strong enough to secure him (v.
3): I will spread my net over thee, even the army of the Chaldeans, a company
of many people; they shall force him out of his fastnesses, dislodge him
out of his possessions, throw him like a great fish upon dry ground, upon
the open field (v. 4), where being out of his element, he must die
of course, and be a prey to the birds and beasts, as was foretold, ch.
xxix. 5. What can the strongest fish do to help itself when it is out of the
water and lies gasping? The flesh of this great whale shall be laid
upon the mountains (v. 5) and the valleys shall be filled
with his height. Such numbers of Pharaoh's soldiers shall be slain that
the dead bodies shall be scattered upon the hills and there shall be heaps of
them piled up in the valleys. Blood shall be shed in such abundance as to
swell the rivers in the valleys. Or, Such shall be the bulk, such the height,
of this leviathan, that, when he is laid upon the ground, he shall fill a
valley. Such vast quantities of blood shall issue from this leviathan
as shall water the land of Egypt, the land wherein now he swims,
now he sports himself, v. 6. It shall reach to the mountains,
and the waters of Egypt shall again be turned into blood by this means:
The rivers shall be full of thee. The judgments executed upon Pharaoh
of old are expressed by the breaking of the heads of leviathan in
the waters, Ps. lxxiv. 13, 14. But now they go further; this old serpent
not only has now his head bruised, but is all crushed to pieces.
(2.) It is set forth by a prophecy of the deep impression which the
destruction of Egypt should make upon the neighbouring nations; it would put
them all into a consternation, as the fall of the Assyrian monarchy did, ch.
xxxi. 15, 16. When Pharaoh, who had been like a blazing burning torch, is put
out and extinguished it shall make all about him look black, v.
7. The heavens shall be hung with black, the stars darkened, the sun
eclipsed, and the moon be deprived of her borrowed light. It is from the upper
world that this lower receives its light; and therefore (v. 8), when
the bright lights of heaven are made dark above, darkness by
consequence is set upon the land, upon the earth; so it shall be on the
land of Egypt. Here the plague of darkness, which was upon Egypt of old for
three days, seems to be alluded to, as, before, the turning of the waters into
blood. For, when former judgments are forgotten, it is just that they should
be repeated. When their privy-counsellors, and statesmen, and those that have
the direction of the public affairs, are deprived of wisdom and made fools,
and the things that belong to their peace are hidden from their eyes, then
their lights are darkened and the land is in a mist. This is foretold, Isa.
xix. 13. The princes of Zoan have become fools. Now upon the spreading
of the report of the fall of Egypt, and the bringing of the news to remote
countries, countries which they had not known (v. 9), people
shall be much affected, and shall feel themselves sensibly touched by it. [1.]
It shall fill them with vexation to see such an ancient, wealthy, potent
kingdom thus humbled and brought down, and the pride of worldly glory, which
they have such a value for, stained. The hearts of many people will be vexed
to see the word of the God of Israel fulfilled in the destruction of Egypt,
and that all the gods of Egypt were not able to relieve it. Note, The
destruction of some wicked people is a vexation to others. [2.] It shall fill
them with admiration (v. 10): They shall be amazed at thee,
shall wonder to see such great riches and power come to nothing,
Rev. xviii. 17. Note, Those that admire with complacency the pomp of this
world will admire with consternation the ruin of that pomp, which to those
that know the vanity of all things here below is no surprise at all. [3.] It
shall fill them with fear: even their kings (that think it their
prerogative to be secure) shall be horribly afraid for thee, concluding
their own house to be in danger when their neighbour's is on fire. When I
shall brandish my sword before them they shall tremble every man for his own
life. Note, When the sword of God's justice is drawn against some, to cut
them off, it is thereby brandished before others, to give them warning. And
those that will not be admonished by it, and made to reform, shall yet be
frightened by it, and made to tremble. They shall tremble at every moment,
because of thy fall. When others are ruined by sin we have reason to quake
for fear, as knowing ourselves guilty and obnoxious. Who is able to stand
before this holy Lord God?
(3.) It is set forth by a plain and express prediction of the desolation
itself that should come upon Egypt. [1.] The instruments of the desolation
appear here very formidable. It is the sword of the king of Babylon,
that warlike, that victorious prince, that shall come upon thee (v.
11), the swords of the mighty, even the terrible of the nations, all
of them (v. 12), an army that there is no standing before. Note,
Those that delight in war, and are upon all occasions entering into
contention, may expect, some time or other, to be engaged with those that will
prove too hard for them. Pharaoh had been forward to quarrel with his
neighbour and to come forth with his rivers, with his armies, v.
2. But God will now give him enough of it. [2.] The instances of the
desolation appear here very frightful, much the same with what we had before, ch.
xxix. 10-12; xxx. 7. First, The multitude of Egypt shall be destroyed,
not decimated, some picked out to be made examples, but all cut off. Note, The
numbers of sinners, though they be a multitude, will neither secure them
against God's power nor entitle them to his pity. Secondly, The pomp of
Egypt shall be spoiled, the pomp of their court, what they have been proud of.
Note, in renouncing the pomps of this world we did ourselves a great kindness,
for they are things that are soon spoiled and that cheat their admirers. Thirdly,
The cattle of Egypt, that used to feed by the rivers, shall be destroyed (v.
13), either cut off by the sword or carried off for a prey. Egypt was famous
for horses, which would be an acceptable booty to the Chaldeans. The rivers
shall be no more frequented as they have been by man and beast, that came
thither to drink. Fourthly, The waters of Egypt, that used to
flow briskly, shall now grow deep, and slow, and heavy, and shall run like
oil (v. 14), a figurative expression signifying that there should
be such universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation that even the
rivers should go softly and silently like mourners, and quite forget their
rapid motion. Fifthly, The whole country of Egypt shall be stripped of
its wealth; it shall be destitute of what whereof it was full (v.
15), corn, and cattle, and all the pleasant fruits of the earth; when those
are smitten that dwell therein the ground is untilled, and that which
is gathered becomes an easy prey to the invader. Note, God can soon empty
those of this world's goods that have the greatest fulness of those things and
are full of them, that enjoy most and have their hearts set upon those
enjoyments. The Egyptians were full of their pleasant and plentiful country,
and its rich productions. Every one that talked with them might perceive how
much it filled them. But God can soon make their country destitute of that
whereof it is full; it is therefore our wisdom to be full of treasures in
heaven. When the country is made destitute, 1. It shall be an instruction to
them: Then shall they know that I am the Lord. A sensible conviction of
the vanity of the world, and the fading perishing nature of all things in it,
will contribute much to our right knowledge of God as our portion and
happiness. 2. It shall be a lamentation to all about them: The daughters of
the nations shall lament her (v. 16), either because, being in
alliance with her, they share in her grievances and suffer with her, or, being
admirers of her, they at least share in her grief and sympathize with her.
They shall lament for Egypt and all her multitude; it shall excite
their pity to see so great a devastation made. By enlarging the matters of our
joy we increase the occasions of our sorrow.
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Fall of Egypt; Egypt's Destruction Completed.
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17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in
the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of
Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous
nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the
pit. 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid
with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of them
that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and
all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to
him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they
lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 22 Asshur is there
and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain,
fallen by the sword: 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the
pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by
the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. 24 There
is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts
of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have
they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. 25 They
have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her
graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they
borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of
them that be slain. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and
all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land
of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that
are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their
weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their
iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of
the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken
in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are
slain with the sword. 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all
her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by
the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down
to the pit. 30 There be the princes of the north, all of
them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their
terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them
that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to
the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over
all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword,
saith the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid
in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the
sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
This prophecy concludes and completes the burden of Egypt, and leaves it and
all its multitude in the pit of destruction.
I. We are here invited to attend the funeral of that once flourishing kingdom,
to lament its fall, and to take a view of those who attend it to the grave and
accompany it in the grave.
1. This dead corpse of a kingdom is here brought to the grave. The prophet is
ordered to cast them down to the pit (v. 18), to foretel their
destruction as one that had authority, as Jeremiah was set over the kingdoms,
Jer. i. 10. He must speak in God's name, and as from him who will cast them
down. Yet he must foretel it as one that had an affectionate concern for them;
he must wail for the multitude of Egypt, even when he casts them
down. When Egypt is slain, let her have an honourable funeral, befitting
her quality; let her be buried with the daughters of the famous nations,
in their burying-places and with the same ceremony. It is but a poor allay to
the reproach and terror of death to be buried with those that were famous; yet
this is all that is allowed to Egypt. Shall Egypt think to exempt herself from
the common fate of proud and imperious nations? No; she must take her lot with
them (v. 19): "Whom dost thou surpass in beauty? Art thou
so much fairer than any other nation that thou shouldst expect therefore to be
excused? No; others as fair as thou have sunk into the pit; go down
therefore, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. Thou art like them
and art likely to lie among them. The multitude of Egypt shall all fall in
the midst of those that are slain with the sword, now that there is a
general slaughter made among the nations." Egypt with the rest must drink
of the bloody cup, and therefore she is delivered to the sword, to the
sword of war (but, in God's hand, the sword of justice), is delivered to be
publicly executed. Draw her and all her multitude; draw them either as
the dead bodies of great men are drawn in honour to the grave, in a hearse, or
as malefactors are drawn in disgrace to the place of execution, on a sledge;
draw them to the pit, and let them be made a spectacle to the world.
2. This corpse of a kingdom is bid welcome to the grave, and Pharaoh is made
free of the congregation of the dead, and admitted into their regions, not
without some pomp and ceremony. As the surprising fall of the king of Babylon
is thus illustrated, Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at
thy coming, and to introduce thee into those mansions of darkness (Isa.
xiv. 9, &c.), so here (v. 21), They shall speak to him out of
the midst of hell, as it were congratulating his arrival and calling him
to join with them in acknowledging that which neither he nor they would be
brought to own when they were in their pomp and pride, that it is in vain to
think of contesting with God, and none ever hardened their hearts against him
and prospered. They shall say to him, and to those that pretended to help him,
Where are you now? What have you brought your attempts to at last? Divers
nations are here mentioned as gone down to the grave before Egypt that are
ready to give her a scornful reception and upbraid her with coming to them at
last. These nations here spoken of were probably such as had been of late
years ruined and wasted by the king of Babylon, and their princes cut off; let
Egypt know that she has neighbour's fare. When she goes to the grave
she does but migrare ad plures--migrate to the majority; there are innumerable
before her. But it is observable that though Judah and Jerusalem were just
about this time, or a little before, utterly ruined and laid waste, yet they
are not mentioned here among the nations that welcome Egypt to the pit; for
though they suffered the same things that these nations suffered, and by the
same hand, yet the kind intentions of their affliction, and its happy issue at
last, and the mercy God had yet in reserve for them, altered the property of
it; it was not to them a going down to the pit, as it was to the
heathen; they were not smitten as others were, nor slain according
to the slaughter of other nations, Isa. xxvii. 7. But let us see who those
are that have gone to the grave before Egypt, that lie
uncircumcised, slain by the sword, with whom she must now take up her
lodging. (1.) There lie the Assyrian empire, and all the princes and mighty
men of that monarchy (v. 22): Asshur is there and all her company,
all the countries that were tributaries to and had dependence upon that crown.
That mighty potentate who used to lie in state, with his guards and grandees
about him, now lies in obscurity, with his graves about him and his
soldiers in them, unable any longer to do him service or honour; they are all
of them slain, fallen by the sword. The number of their months was cut
off in the midst, and, being bloody and deceitful men, they
were not suffered to live out half their days. Their braves were set
in the sides of the pit, all in a row, like beds in a common chamber, v.
23. All their company is such as were slain, fallen by the sword; a
vast congregation there is of such, who had caused terror in the land of
the living. But as the death of those to whom they were a terror put an
end to their fears (in the grave the prisoners rest together and hear
not the voice of the oppressor, Job iii. 18), so the death of these mighty
men puts an end to their terrors. Who is afraid of a dead lion? Note,
Death will be a king of terrors to those who, instead of making themselves
blessings, make themselves terrors, in their generation. (2.) There lies the
kingdom of Persia, which perhaps within the memory of man at that time had
been wasted and brought down: There is Elam and all her multitude, the
king of Elam and his numerous armies, v. 24, 25. They also had caused
their terror in the land of the living, had made a fearful noise and
bluster among the nations in their day. But Elam has now a grave by herself,
and the graves of the common people round about her, fallen by the sword;
she has her bed in the midst of the slain that went down uncircumcised,
unsanctified, unholy, and not in covenant with God. They have borne
their shame with those that go down to the pit; they have fallen under the
common disgrace and mortification of mankind, that they die and are buried;
nay, they die under particular marks of ignominy, which God and man put upon
them. Note, Those who cause their terror shall, sooner or later, bear their shame,
and be made a terror to themselves. The king of Elam is put in the midst of
those that are slain. All the honour he can now pretend to is to be buried
in the chief sepulchre. (3.) There lies the Scythian power, which, about this
time, was busy in the world. Meshech and Tubal, those barbarous
northern nations, had lately made a descent upon the Medes, and caused
their terror among them, lived among them upon free quarter for some
years, making every thing their own that they could lay their hands on; but at
length Cyaxares, king of the Medes, drew them by a wile into his power, but
off abundance of them, and obliged them to quit his country, v. 26.
There lie Meshech and Tubal, and all their multitude; there is a burying place
for them, with their chief commander in the midst of them, all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword. These Scythians, dying ingloriously as
they lived, are not laid, as the other nations spoken of before, in the bed of
honour (v. 27): They shall not lie with the mighty, shall not be
buried in state, as those are, even by consent of the enemy, that are slain in
the field of battle, that go down to their graves with their weapons of war
carried before the hearse, or trailed after it, that have particularly their
swords laid under their heads, as if they could sleep the sweeter in the
grave when they laid their heads on such a pillow. These Scythians are not
buried with these marks of honour, but their iniquities shall be upon their
sons; they shall, for their iniquity, be left unburied, though they were
the terror even of the mighty in the land of the living. (4.)
There lies the kingdom of Edom, which had flourished long, but about this
time, at least before the destruction of Egypt, was made quite desolate, as
was foretold, ch. xxv. 13. Among the sepulchres of the nations there
is Edom, v. 29. There lie, not dignified with monuments or
inscriptions, but mingled with common dust, her kings and all her princes,
her wise statesmen (which Edom was famous for), and her brave soldiers. These with
their might are laid by those that were slain by the sword; their might
could not prevent it, nay, their might helped to procure it, for that both
encouraged them to engage in war and incensed their neighbours against them,
who thought it necessary to curb their growing greatness. A great deal of
pains they took to ruin themselves, as many do, who with their might,
with all their might, are laid by those that were slain with the sword.
The Edomites retained circumcision, being of the seed of Abraham. But that
shall stand them in no stead; they shall lie with the uncircumcised.
(5.) There lie the princes of the north, and all the Zidonians. These
were as well acquainted with maritime affairs as the Egyptians were, who
relied much upon that part of their strength, but they have gone down with
the slain (v. 30), down to the pit. Now they are ashamed of
their might, ashamed to think how much they boasted of it and trusted to
it; and, as the Edomites with their might, so these with their
terror, are laid with those that are slain by the sword and are
forced to take their lot with them. They bear their shame with those that
go down to the pit, die in as much disgrace as those that are cut off by
the hand of public justice. (6.) All this is applied to Pharaoh and the
Egyptians, who have no reason to flatter themselves with hopes of tranquillity
when they see how the wisest, and wealthiest, and strongest, of their
neighbours have been laid waste (v. 28): "Yea, thou shalt be
broken in the midst of the uncircumcised; when God is pulling down the
unhumbled and unreformed nations thou must expect to come down with
them." [1.] It will be some extenuation of the miseries of Egypt to
observe that it has been the case of so many great and mighty nations before (v.
31): Pharaoh shall see them and be comforted; it will be some ease to
his mind that he is not the first king that has been slain in battle--his not
the first army that has been routed, his not the first kingdom that has been
made desolate. Mr. Greenhill observes here, "The comfort which wicked
ones have after death is poor comfort, not real, but imaginary." They
will find little satisfaction in having so many fellow-sufferers; the rich man
in hell dreaded it. It is only in point of honour that Pharaoh can see and
be comforted. [2.] But nothing will be an exemption from these miseries;
for (v. 32) I have caused my terror in the land of the living.
Great men have caused their terror, have studied how to make every body fear
them. Oderint dum metuant--Let them hate, so that they do but fear. But
now the great God has caused his terror in the land of the living; and
therefore he laughs at theirs, because he sees that his day is coming,
Ps. xxxvii. 13. In this day of terror Pharaoh and all his multitude
shall be laid with those that are slain by the sword.
II. The view which this prophecy gives us of ruined states may show us
something, 1. Of this present world, and the empire of death in it. Come, and
see the calamitous state of human life; see what a dying world this is. The
strong die, the mighty die, Pharaoh and all his multitude. See what a killing
world this is. They are all slain with the sword. As if men did not die
fast enough of themselves, men are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy
one another. It is not only a great pit, but a great cock-pit. 2. Of the other
world. Though it is the destruction of nations as such that perhaps is
principally intended here, yet here is a plain allusion to the final and
everlasting ruin of impenitent sinners, of those that are uncircumcised in
heart; they are slain by the sword of divine justice; their iniquity
is upon them, and with it they bear their shame. Those, Christ's
enemies, that would not have him to reign over them, shall be brought forth
and slain before him, though they be as pompous, though they be as
numerous, as Pharaoh and all his multitude.
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