Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. Ruins. Hebrew and Septuagint “with dead bodies,” ( Calmet.) or he will fill up the places of the fallen angels. Jans.—Implevit valles. Saint Jerome—Christ was placed for the fall and for the resurrection of many.—Of many. Hebrew “the head in an extensive territory.” We might render the Vulg. “he shall crush the heads of many in the land.” Bible.—Rebellious kings, with their populous kingdoms shall be destroyed. Worthington.—The power of the devil, and of all his agents, shall be crushed, though they may fill the greater part of the world, ( Bible.) in terra quam multi occupant. Bert.