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For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
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The Sin of Adding to Suffering
Commentators highlight the extreme cruelty described here. The persecutors see someone already afflicted (or "smitten by God") and, instead of showing compassion, they add to the suffering with their own attacks and malicious gossip. This reveals a brutal disposition that despises both the afflicted and God himself, turning a moment for mercy into an opportunity for malice.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For they persecute him whom you have smitten – This means that instead of pitying one who is afflicted by God, or showing compassio…
19th Century
Anglican
They talk ... —Better, and respecting the pain of your pierced ones, they talk. (For the construction of this verb ta…
16th Century
Protestant
For they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten. He brings forward the crime with which they were chargeable, to make it clear that th…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For they persecute [him] whom you have smitten Meaning the Messiah, who was not only smitten and scourged by men, bu…
These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses 22 and 23 are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in…
