let another, &c. Quoted, but not fulfilled in Acts 1:20.
office. overseership.
Let his days be few - Let him be soon cut off; let his life be shortened. It cannot be wrong for an officer of justice to aim at this; to desire...
Let his days be few; [and] let another take his (e) office. (e) This was chiefly accomplished in Judas, ( Acts 1:20 ).
CIX. A Psalm of Cursing. This Ps. is further than anything else in the whole Psalter from the spirit of Christianity. It falls into three parts: P...
8 Let his days be few Although this world is the scene of much toil and trouble, yet we know that these are pledges and proofs of God’s lovi...
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let another take his office - The original is פקדתו pekuddatho, which the margin translates c...
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his days be few - even as he plotted to shorten my days; literally, 'be fewnesses.'...
The strongest of the imprecatory Pss. (see Intro.). Probably it is just to regard the Psalmist as speaking in the name of the whole nation, vexed and...
Let another take his office ] cp. the reference to Judas Iscariot ( Acts 1:20 ). Hence this was known to the early Fathers as 'Psalmus Iscarioticus....
Office. — See Note, Psalms 109:6 . Evidently some post of power and influence.
Psalms 109:1-31 THIS is the last and the most terrible of the imprecatory psalms. Its central portion ( Psalms 109:6-20 ) consists of a series of...
the Persecutor of the Needy Psalms 109:1-16 This psalm is like a patch of the Sahara amid a smiling Eden. But, terrible as the words are, remem...
This is a psalm full of interest. The singer is in a place of terrible suffering due to the implacable hostility of his foes. The passage containing...
As the authority we have for applying all that is here said in a way of denunciation, to the person of Judas, is derived particularly from the apostl...
RESPONSIBILITY OF OFFICE ‘Let another take his office.’ Psalms 109:8 It is not too much to say that, save in the Athanasian Creed itself, nowh...
Let his days be few ,.... The days of men in common are but few at most: length of days, either beyond or according to the usual term of life, is re...
Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office. Ver. 8. Let his days be few ] Let his execution be hastened, as Haman's was. Ahithophel an...
Let his days be few The days of his life. Let him die an untimely death. So did Ahithophel, and so did Judas; both hanging themselves. And let ano...
Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Sat...
Let his days be few; the days of his life. Let him die an untimely death. His office, made void by his death. He also implies that his enemy was...
INTRODUCTION “This,” says Perowne, “is the last of the Psalms of imprecation, and completes the terrible climax. In the awfulness of its anathemas,...
Psalms 109:8 As often as we keep St. Matthias' Day, we keep the memorial of the sin and misery of the traitor Judas also; and our thoughts are car...
Psalms 109:6 . Set thou a wicked man over him. This cannot apply to Ahithophel; he was already his own executioner. Let Satan, that is, an adver...
Hold not Thy peace, O God of my praise. A song of imprecation I. The misdeeds of the wicked ( Psalms 109:1-5 ). II. The imprecation of wrath...
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. The outcast’s place filled (for St. Matthias’ Day):--The words in themselves sound simple...
EXPOSITION THE title of this psalm—"To the chief musician, a psalm of David"—is thought to be not inappropriate. We may have here David's own...
Lament of the Righteous Against Traitors and Enemies. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical part of worship, a psalm of David, in which...
Let his days be few, his life coming to an end before the time normally set for its length; and let another take his office, this statement being d...
Acts 1:16-26 ; Matthew 27:5 ; Psalms 55:23
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.d