And if he come to see [me]
Meaning anyone of his enemies, when they came, as pretended, to
pay him a friendly visit. A late learned writer F24
interprets this of Absalom, who visited his father when he had
the smallpox, which he thinks, after mentioned, of which his
enemies expected he would die, when Absalom pretended great
concern for his life; though he, with others, were plotting
against him, should he live, to destroy him;
he speaketh vanity;
lies and falsehoods, in an hypocritical manner, with a double
heart; his mouth and his heart not agreeing together; see (
Matthew
22:16 ) ;
his heart gathereth iniquity to itself;
amasses to itself greater treasures of wickedness still, thought
that itself is desperately wicked, and very wickedness: this is
to be understood of the enemies of Christ observing his words and
actions, and laying them up, with a wicked intention, against a
proper time;
[when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it];
as in the instances concerning giving tribute to Caesar,
destroying the temple, and saying he was the son of God, (
Matthew
22:17 Matthew
22:18 ) ; compared with ( Luke 23:2 ) ( John 2:19 John 2:21 ) ; compared
with ( Matthew
26:60 Matthew
26:61 ) ( John 5:17 John 5:18 ) , compared
with ( John 19:5
) .