Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
KJV
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Commentary
Commentary
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. This sometimes is the case of good men, who leave widows and fatherless children, whom the Lord shows mercy to; being the Father of the fatherless, and the Judge of the widow,
Psa 68:5
, but sometimes it is threatened and comes as a judgment, when the Lord shows no mercy and favour to them,
Exo 22:24
. And this is the case here, which very probably was literally fulfilled in Judas, who might have a wife and children; since it looks as if the other apostles had, and certain it is that one of them had a wife, even Peter, in the times of Christ; see
Co1 9:5
. And this was verified in the people of the Jews; whom the Lord divorced from himself, and wrote a "loammi" upon them, and left them as orphans and fatherless,
Hos 1:9
. This will never be the case of Christ's people, or the Christian church,
Joh 14:18
, though it will be of the antichristian one,
Rev 18:7
.
Commentary
Commentary