The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. Name, or destroy them. The name is often put for the thing itself. Yet many of those nations who once made such a noise, are now quite forgotten. No traces of them can be found. Bible.—The Egyptians and Chanaanites had been exterminated. Calmet.—Ever, for all eternity, as long as God shall reign, verse 8. 39. or Psalms 10:1–6. This shews that he speaks of the latter times, and of the final destruction of idolatry, by the preaching of apostolic men, (Bert.) and by the last fire. For some will be so infatuated as to uphold it even to the end. Bible.—We have even reason to fear that it will again become more general, ( P. Apoc.) as faith shall decrease. Jesus Christ and his apostles gave it however ( Bible.) a mortal wound, so that in the fifth age many of its mysteries were quite forgotten. Theod. SS. Aug. and Jer. Calmet.—They took the towns, or the souls, of many from the strong-armed. Luk. 11:21. Bert.—All sinners may be here styled Gentiles, because they were generally wicked. If their reputation survive here for a while, it will certainly perish in the future world. Worthington.