"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
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 .
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
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 .