Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/3_500_e.lzh/3_563.TXT

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\*Ver. 17. \\The wicked shall be turned into hell\\, &c.]
Some render it, %shall return to the grave% {p}, to the
earth, the original dust from whence they came; but
this is common to all men, to the righteous as well as
the wicked; rather \^lwav\^ here signifies the place of
torment, commonly called hell, where devils and
damned spirits are; hither the souls of the wicked go
immediately upon their departure from their bodies,
\\#Lu 16:23\\; and after the judgment is over, they will
be remanded thither in soul and body; and their damnation
is called the destruction of soul and body in
hell; which will consist in an everlasting separation
from God, and in a sense of his wrath and fiery indignation:
and though this is true of all the wicked, yet
here that wicked one, antichrist, and his wicked followers,
are chiefly designed; even the beast and false
prophet, who shall be cast alive into the lake of fire
burning with brimstone, \\#Re 19:20 20:10\\;
\*\\[and] all the nations that forget God\\; which is not to be
understood of the Pagan nations, though they may be
said to forget God, since he is to be known by the
light of nature, and yet they worship idols, the works
of their hands; but the Papal nations, who adore the
pope of Rome as God on earth, worship angels and
saints departed, and images of gold and silver, and
wood and stone. It may be applied to every wicked
man who forgets there is a God who sees and knows
all things, and to whom men are accountable; see
\\#Ps 50:22\\.

\*Ver. 18. \\For the needy shall not always be forgotten\\,
&c.] The people of God are poor and needy for the
most part; they are so in things temporal, and they
are poor in spirit, or in things spiritual, of which they
are sensible; their needs are many, and frequently return;
but God has provided a throne of grace for them
to come to for help in time of need, and he will supply
all their wants out of the fulness of grace in Christ;
nor is he unmindful of them, and of his covenant with
them; strictly speaking, they are never forgotten by
him, being engraven on his hands, and set as a seal on
his heart; but they sometimes seem to be so both to
themselves and others, \\#Ps 42:3,10 44:24
77:9 Isa 49:14\\; and they may continue
so long; God may seem for a long time to
take no notice of them, but suffer them to lie under
affliction and persecution; the holy city is trodden
under foot forty-two months, or one thousand two hundred
and sixty days, that is, so many years; so long
the witnesses prophesy in sackcloth, so long the church
is in the wilderness, and so long will be the reign of
antichrist, \\#Re 11:2,3 12:6 13:5\\; but as
great Babylon will come up in remembrance before
God, and he will remember her sins, and render her
double; the set time to favour his poor and needy will
come, and he will arise and have mercy on them, and
bring them into a glorious and comfortable state and
condition;
\*\\the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish
for ever\\; the negative particle, though not in the original
text, is rightly supplied from the preceding
clause, as it is by the Targum, Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and
Kimchi, and as the sense requires; and the expectation
of Christ's poor ones is not only a supply of grace
here and eternal happiness hereafter; but they expect
a glorious state of the church on earth, and that Christ
will descend in person from heaven, and his tabernacle
will be among men; and that they shall be kings and
priests, and possess the kingdom, and reign with Christ
a thousand years; and though these things may seem
to be deferred, and their expectation put off to a length
of time, yet it shall not perish for ever; there will be
a performance of the things promised and expected.

\*Ver. 19. \\Arise, O Lord\\, &c.] To the destruction of
thine enemies, and the Salvation of thy people; \\see
Gill on "Ps 7:6"\\;
\*\\let not man prevail; the man
of sin, antichrist, that is, let him not always prevail;
he is the little horn that was to prevail against the
saints, and has prevailed, \\#Da 7:21 Re 13:7\\;
but he shall not always prevail; this petition will be
heard and answered; for though he shall cast down
many thousands, he shall not be %strengthened% by it,
\\#Da 11:12\\; where the same word is used as here; the
Lamb at last shall overcome him and his ten kings, his
supporters, and all that shall aid and assist him, \\#Re
17:14 19:19-21\\;
\*\\let the Heathen be judged
in thy sight\\; that is, the antichristian nations that adhere
to the man of sin, let them be judged and punished
in the sight of God, the Judge of all the earth, whose
eyes are as a flame of fire; compare with this \\#Joe 3:12\\.

\*Ver. 20. \\Put them in fear, O Lord\\, &c.] Who are,
a bold, impudent, fearless generation of men; who, like
the unjust judge, neither fear God nor regard men, therefore
the psalmist prays that God would inject fear into
them, who only can do it; and this will be done at
Babylon's destruction, when the antichristian kings,
merchants, and seafaring men, will stand afar off for
fear of her torment, \\#Re 18:10,15,17\\;
\*\\[that] the
nations may know themselves to be but men\\; and
not God, and have no power against him; see \\#Isa
31:3\\; the sense is, that the antichristian nations,
who oppose themselves to Christ and his people, may
know that they are but frail, mortal, miserable men, as
the word {q} signifies; and that he who is at the head of
them, the man of sin, is no other, though he exalts
himself above all that is called God, \\#2Th 2:4\\; or
these words are a prayer for the conversion of many

among the nations, and may be rendered, %put, O Lord,
fear in them% {r}; that is, the true grace of fear, %that the
nations may know% themselves, their sin and guilt and
danger, and know God in Christ, and Christ, and the
way of salvation by him; for at the word %know% should
be a stop, concluding a proposition, since the accent
%athnach% is there; and then follows another, %they [are]
men. Selah%: destitute of the fear and grace of God, are
capable of it, but cannot give it to themselves.

\*\\Selah\\; on this word, \\see Gill on "Ps 3:2"\\.

{p} \^hlwavl wbwvy\^ %revertentur ad vel in sepulchrum%, Pagninus,
Montanus, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
{q} \^hmh vwna\^ %mortales esse%, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus;
%homines miseri%, Cocceius, Michaelis; %sorry men%, Ainsworth.
{r} \^Mhl hrwm htyv\^ %pone timorem eis%, so Junius and Tremellius,
Piscator, Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Ainsworth.