37. Neither . . . regard . . . the desire of women —(Compare Ezekiel 24:16 ; Ezekiel 24:18 ). The wife, as the desire of man's eyes, is the symbol of the tenderest relations ( 2 Samuel 1:26 ). Antiochus would set at naught even their entreaties that he should cease from his attack on Jehovah's worship [POLANUS]. MAURER refers it to Antiochus' attack on the temple of the Syrian Venus, worshipped by women ( 1 Maccabees 6:1, c. 2 Maccabees 1:13 ). NEWTON refers it to Rome's "forbidding to marry." ELLIOTT rightly makes the antitypical reference be to Messiah. Jewish women desired to be mothers with a view to Him, the promised seed of the woman ( Genesis 30:23 ; Luke 1:25 ; Luke 1:28 ). nor regard any god — ( 2 Thessalonians 2:4 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-38" class="com-number"
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