Psa 109:6, Mat 12:45, Luk 8:32-33, 22:3, Joh 13:2, Act 5:3 | TSK | STEP | Set thou.Dr. Sykes, Michaelis, and others, contend that these imprecations are those of David's enemies against himself; and they would render, "Set, say they, a wicked," etc: but this is rendered highly improbable by the 8th verse being applied by St. Peter to the traitor Judas, of whom David was certainly not a type. (See ver. 20.) Bp. Horsley and others, however, render the verbs in the future tense, the first verb alone being in the imperative; justly considering the Psalmist as merely uttering prophetic denunciations of God's displeasure against sinners. and let. Satan. or, an adversary.

Psalms 109:6

Set thou.Dr. Sykes, Michaelis, and others, contend that these imprecations are those of David's enemies against himself; and they would render, "Set, say they, a wicked," etc: but this is rendered highly improbable by the 8th verse being applied by St. Peter to the traitor Judas, of whom David was certainly not a type. (See ver. 20.) Bp. Horsley and others, however, render the verbs in the future tense, the first verb alone being in the imperative; justly considering the Psalmist as merely uttering prophetic denunciations of God's displeasure against sinners.

Mt 27:4

and let.

Zec 3:1; Joh 13:2,27

Satan. or, an adversary.

Mt 5:25

Matthew 12:45

seven.

24; Mr 5:9; 16:9; Eph 6:12

more.

23:15

and the.

Lu 11:26; Heb 6:4-8; 10:26-31,39; 2Pe 2:14-22; 1Jo 5:16,17

Jude 1:10-13

Even.And so it was; for they became worse and worse, as if totally abandoned to diabolical influence, till the besom of destruction swept them away.

21:38-44; 23:32-39,24,34; Lu 11:49-51; 19:41-44; Joh 15:22-24

Ro 11:8-10; 1Th 2:15,16

Luke 8:32-33

there an.

Le 11:7; Isa 65:4; 66:3; Mt 8:30-33; Mr 5:11-13

besought.

Job 1:10; Ps 62:11; Joh 19:11; 1Jo 4:4

he suffered.

1Ki 22:22; Job 1:12; 2:6; Re 20:7

Then.By this was fully evinced the sovereign power of our Lord, and the reality of diabolical agency; "for," says Dr. Doddridge, "it was self-evident that a herd of swine could not be confederates in any fraud; their death, therefore, in this instructive circumstance, was ten thousand times a greater blessing to mankind than if they had been slain for food, as was intended."

the herd.

Joh 8:44; 1Pe 5:8; Re 9:11