The drapery of the thought rests upon the fact of the destruction of Pharaoh and his horsemen in the Red Sea | The bruising of Satan, the head or prince of this evil world, is the deliverance of the world |
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His head was bruised, when, by the Death of our Lord, "the Prince of this world was cast out;" he is "crushed out of the house of the wicked, whenever he, the strong man," is bound and cast out, and "the soul of the sinner which had been his abode, becomes the house of God, and righteousness dwelleth there and walketh in her |
Some commentators see here an allusion to the primeval sentence : others to the destruction of the Egyptians' firstborn; others to the incident of Jael and Sisera.
You come out to save Your people, to save Your anointed | All the wonders done for Israel of old, were nothing to that which was done when the Son of God suffered on the cross for the sins of his people |
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From above, his head was crushed in pieces; from below, the house was razed from its very foundations | סוּסיך is an accusative, not instrumenti, however, but of more precise definition: thou, namely, according to thy horses; for "with thy horses," as in ; אתּה ידך ; cf |
They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me — The prophet here assumes the person of the Israelitish people, and therefore says, They came out to scatter me.
21The "anointed one," again, is not the nation of Israel, for the term is always applied to a single individual and never to the people collectively; so here it is the theocratic king who is meant - first, the representative of David; and secondly, the Messiah | Thou woundedst crushedst the head out of the house of the wicked - One wicked stands over against One anointed, as in Isaiah Isa 11:4 |
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ראשׁ, the head of his hordes, cannot be the leader, partly because of what follows, "who come storming on," which presupposes that not the leader only, but the hordes or warriors, will be destroyed, and partly also because of the preceding verse, in which the destruction of the king is pronounced, and also because the distinction between the king and the leader of the army is at variance with the complex character of the prophetic description |
In Hebrew usage perâzı̄ signifies the inhabitant of the plain ; , and perâzōth the plains, the open flat land, as distinguished from walled cities.
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