His mouth is full of cursing
Or, "he has filled his mouth with cursing" F5 God and
good men, his superiors, himself and others. The word signifies
"an oath"; and may design either a profane oath, taking the name
of God in vain; or an oath on a civil account, a false oath,
taken with a design to defraud and deceive others, as follows,
and intends perjury; and this, as applicable to antichrist,
regards his mouth speaking great things and blasphemies against
God, and uttering curses and anathemas against the saints, (
Revelation 13:5
Revelation 13:6 ) ;
and deceit and fraud;
such as flattery and lying, which are both used by him with an
intention to impose upon and deceive. The apostle, in ( Romans 3:14 ) ; renders
both these words by one, "bitterness"; which may be said of sin
in general, which is a very bitter thing; though it is rolled as
a sweet morsel in the mouth of a wicked man, yet in the issue it
is bitterness to him: and it is applicable to sinful words, which
are bitter in their effects to those against whom they are
spoken, or who are deceived and imposed upon by them: and, as
they refer to antichrist, may have respect to the lies in
hypocrisy spoken by him, and to the deceitfulness of
unrighteousness, by which he works upon those that perish, (
1 Timothy
4:2 ) ( 2
Thessalonians 2:10 ) ;
under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity;
alluding to serpents, who have little bags of poison under their
teeth; see ( Psalms 140:3
) ; Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that the heart is under the
tongue, being lower than it, and so denotes the wickedness which
that is full of, and devises continually, and is latent in it
until discovered; and is mischievous iniquity, injurious to God,
and the honour of his law, and to fellow creatures; and
especially to the saints, whose persons, characters, and estates,
are aimed at; but in the issue it is all vanity, and a fruitless
attempt, being blasted by God, and overruled for good to him; see
( Isaiah
54:17 ) ;