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For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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The Illusion of Strength
Commentators explain that the image of "entangled thorns" represents enemies who seem dangerously strong and impenetrable. However, the verse reveals this strength is an illusion. Just as fire easily consumes a thorny thicket, God's power can effortlessly overcome any opposition, no matter how formidable it appears to human eyes.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For while they lie entangled like thorns – that is, as confused, intertwined, sharp, piercing, hard to touch, rending and tearing w…
19th Century
Anglican
For while. —Better, For they will be like bundles of thorns, and even while soaked in their drink they will be burned up like …
16th Century
Protestant
He continues with this same subject: that God, when He chooses to exercise His power, can, with no difficulty, consume His enemies. For the compari…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For while [they are] folden together [as] thorns Like them, useless and unprofitable, harmful and pernicious, fit on…
There is a great deal plotted against the Lord by the gates of hell, and against his kingdom in the world, but it will prove to be in vain. With so…
