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1Ch_21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
Ver. 1. And Satan stood up against Israel.] That is, The devil, as Job_1:6 Psa_109:6 Zec_3:1-2. Satan signifieth an adversary. So the devil is to God and his people, {Rev_12:9; Rev_20:2} an adversary at law {a} {1Pe_5:8} hating them with an inward, spiteful hatred, as do also his instruments. {Psa_55:4} The Emperor Commodus - cunctis incommodus, saith Orosius; semper incommodus, saith Vopiscus, in vita Taciti - was commonly called the enemy of God and men, the very name of the devil. Howbeit God so chained him up, that, of all the emperors until Constantine, he was most favourable unto Christians, {b} by the mediation of Marcia, who favoured their doctrine, saith Dion; but especially by the overruling power and providence of God, who also had a holy hand in this that David here did: {See Trapp on "2Sa_24:1"}
{a} Aíôéäéêïò .
{b} Mountag., Act. and Mon., cap. 7, par. 115.