10. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off. Power and liberty being restored to Israel, she begins again to execute
justice, by abasing the godless who had gloried in the reign of oppression. Men
wore horns in those days as part of their state, and these, both literally and
figuratively, were to be lopped off; for since God abhors the proud, his church
will not tolerate them any longer. But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. In a tightly ordered society, good men are counted great men,
virtue confers true rank, and grace is more esteemed than gold. Being saved
from unrighteous domination, the chief among the chosen people here promises to
rectify the errors which had crept into the commonwealth, and after the example
of the Lord himself, to abase the haughty and elevate the humble.
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