Verse 7
For they have devoured Jacob ,.... The posterity of Jacob, the people of the Jews, typical of the church of God, made havoc of by the Romish antichrist: and laid waste his dwelling place; both Jerusalem and the temple, which was done both by the Chaldeans and the Romans, and also in the times of Antiochus; see the Apocrypha:
"38 Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her. 39 Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.' ( 1 Maccabees 1 )
"4In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for his prey. 5 For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people.' ( 1 Maccabees 3 )
which were types of the Gospel church made desolate by the Papists: the word F4 נוהו "caulam ejus", Michaelis. used signifies a sheepcote, the dwelling place of those sheep that are troubled by the beast of Rome.
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