Verse 11
11. Ye… that compass yourselves about with sparks If any son of Israel is neglecting Jehovah his God, is self-sufficient, is kindling his own fire and walking by the light of it, even daring the perils of stumbling on account of the darkness which his own soon-to-be-quenched light shall occasion, then, be sure, God’s own right hand shall send a doom heavier than can be imagined.
Ye shall lie down in sorrow Or in a place of torment, where there shall be no remedy. Vitringa, and those who follow him, suppose allusion here is direct to the Pharisaical party who at first listened to Christ’s teachings, then rejected them, then murdered him. For all which their doom as a nation was precipitated in forty years.
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