Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah." — Zephaniah 1:3 (ASV)
The stumblingblocks with the wicked. — that is, the enticements to sin together with the sinners. The word macshêlâh is used in Isaiah 3:6 in the sense of “a ruin.” Here, however, such a meaning would not be appropriate. It is exactly the πάντα τὰ σκάνδαλα of Matthew 13:41, a passage in which we may perhaps see a reminiscence of the text before us.