“For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord GOD.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 32. My. Hebrew Septuagint “his,” ( Calmet.) alluding to the ravages of Nechao; (Grot.) though the Hebrew may also signify my, as the Jews read Egypt, and Palestine, the land of the living, were filled with terror. After the latter had been chastised, Pharao might dread ( Calmet.) a worse fate; ( Bible.) and the multitudes slain before him, might afford him some ( Calmet.) wretched consolation. Bible.—It is evident that those nations believed the existence of separate spirits, and had not given in to the errors of the Sadducees, or of the Metempsychosis. Calmet.