That ye may eat the flesh of kings
Of the earth, and of the whole world, who will fall in the battle
at Armageddon; see ( Revelation
16:14 ) ( 19:19 )
and design either those antichristian kings and states, which
have drunk of the wine of Rome's fornication, and will bewail the
downfall of Babylon, ( Revelation
18:3 Revelation
18:9 ) or those Pagan kings which will be drawn in by the
pope and Turk, to aid and assist in this war, or both, when, upon
the defeat of them, the Christian princes will seize upon,
possess, and enjoy their kingdoms and dominions, which is meant
by eating their flesh; (See Gill on
Revelation 17:16).
And the flesh of captains;
of their generals, and officers under them:
and the flesh of mighty men;
the common soldiers, who are so called, ( Jeremiah
46:5 ) who will be rifled and plundered:
and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on
them;
whose rich trappings and clothes will be taken away from them:
and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small
and great;
that is, the substance of all the inhabitants of the
antichristian empire, both eastern and western, of whatsoever
rank, state, and condition they be, ( Revelation
13:16 ) . The metaphors are taken from, and there is a
manifest allusion to, ( Ezekiel
39:17-20 ) and the whole denotes the entire slaughter and
utter ruin of the whole antichristian army, and the certainty of
Christ's victory over it before hand; and also the destruction of
all that are the followers of antichrist, throughout his
dominions, which will now wholly fall into the hands of the
saints, and be enjoyed by them.