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1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? …
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We have here a very great struggle about the kingdom of Christ, hell and heaven contesting it; the seat of the war is this earth, where Satan has long had a usurped kingdom and exercised dominion to such a degree that he has been called the prince of the power of the very air we breathe in and the god of the world we live in. He knows very well that, as the Messiah’s kingdom rises and gets ground,…
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