Her adversaries have become the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
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Interlinear Gloss
AD 1480
He- ‘those’; they are proclaimed, namely in Deuteronomy, and thus fulfilled. As if: ‘because they refused to obey God, who conquered the gentiles for them, they are justly made subjects to the gentiles.’
adversaries- demons, heretics.
become her lords- who before were in the tail; indeed, when we conceive a good work with a corrupt mind, the devil reigns from the beginning.
are enriched- by lessening of good, by continuance of sinning.
Lord has spoken- in Deuteronomy.
against her- who ought to be oppressed; concession.
her children- the faint of heart; who is to be pitied through disposition of nature; not great.
are led- by demons, outside the Church.
oppressor- They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved.
