Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 78:49
Psalms 78:49. By sending evil angels among them— I join the latter end of this verse to the beginning of the next (says Mudge) in one sentence, which is a very noble one. He nicely weighed or marked out a mission of evil angels, to be a path for his anger. This refers to his slaying the first-born, which is described as performed by a destroying angel. The path of his anger is considered as a certain width or extent of destroying powers, which he exactly measured out. He renders the whole verse... read more
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 78:47
Psalms 78:47. He destroyed their vines— Egypt is not by any means a wine country, nor ever was; so far from it, that they were forced to use a sort of beer for common drink, and do so to this day, made of barley and some intoxicating drug; this country not producing, like other countries in the east, wine in such quantities, as to be tolerably proportionate to the wants of its inhabitants. We may therefore, perhaps, wonder that their vines should have been considered by the Psalmist as so... read more