THE evil, or the evil one] this expression, especially if read in the Neuter Gender ([Greek or Hebrew]) is meant of more evils than one, yea of all evil; and so it may be understood in that Prayer which our Lord taught, Matth. 6.13. and that Prayer which our Lord made and Prayed, Joh. 17.15. and so in Rom. 12.9. 1 Joh. 5.19. but here it seems to be of the Masculine Gender ([Greek or Hebrew]) and refers to one, viz. him who is eminently and principally the evil one, or the wicked one, whether spoken of a man or of the Devil. It is used to denote and set out a notorious wicked man that hath no fellow in wickedness, a Devil incarnate, an Antichrist, as 'tis in 2 Thes. 2.3,—9. for though the word ([Greek or Hebrew]) be not there, yet ([Greek or Hebrew]) an equivalent word is there; Hesychius makes these words to be synonymous, [Greek or Hebrew], all noting a most flagitious, profligate and terribly wicked person, as this word doth, 1 Cor. 5.13. but it doth most usually refer to the Devil himself, who is ([Greek or Hebrew]) the wicked one, so eminently as none is beside him; and this may be observed to be undoubtedly true by comparing these following Texts, Matth. 13.19. with ⟨p. 339⟩Luke 8.12. Ephes. 6.16. 1 Joh. 3.12. now this is the evil or wicked one (not excluding others) that these Young men have overcome by being strong, and the Word of God abiding in them: The Devil being the Captain-General, the ring-leader, the Master of misrule and mischief, the rest fall with him. In telling us that they have overcome the wicked one, 'tis implied that there was first a fight, an hot and sharp encounter between the Devil and the Young men: the Devil did set upon them and tempt them shrewdly, and they had not a little to do till they won the field and day of him. And surely 'twere not temptations in common but some singular ones that these Young men were under: the Babes meet with common ones, but these with special ones, 1 Cor. 10.13. As Christ Jesus would not teach the Babes Doctrine which they could not bear, so he would not lead them into temptations, which they could not overcome: but these Young men, who are his Champions and Worthies, they encounter Giants (as Davids did) they war not against flesh and blood (weak enemies) but against principalities and powers, &c. Ephes. 6.
THE evil, or the evil one] this expression, especially if read in the Neuter Gender (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) is meant of more evils than one, yea of all evil; and so it may be understood in that Prayer which our Lord taught, Matth. 6.13. and that Prayer which our Lord made and Prayed, Joh. 17.15. and so in Rom. 12.9. 1 Joh. 5.19. but here it seems to be of the Masculine Gender (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) and refers to one, viz. him who is eminently and principally the evil one, or the wicked one, whether spoken of a man or of the Devil. It is used to denote and set out a notorious wicked man that hath no fellow in wickedness, a Devil incarnate, an Antichrist, as 'tis in 2 Thes. 2.3,—9. for though the word (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) be not there, yet (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) an equivalent word is there; Hesychius makes these words to be synonymous, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, all noting a most flagitious, profligate and terribly wicked person, as this word doth, 1 Cor. 5.13. but it doth most usually refer to the Devil himself, who is (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) the wicked one, so eminently as none is beside him; and this may be observed to be undoubtedly true by comparing these following Texts, Matth. 13.19. with ⟨p. 339⟩Luke 8.12. Ephes. 6.16. 1 Joh. 3.12. now this is the evil or wicked one (not excluding others) that these Young men have overcome by being strong, and the Word of God abiding in them: The Devil being the Captain-General, the ring-leader, the Master of misrule and mischief, the rest fall with him. In telling us that they have overcome the wicked one, 'tis implyed that there was first a fight, an hot and sharp encounter between the Devil and the Young men: the Devil did set upon them and tempt them shrewdly, and they had not a little to do till they won the field and day of him. And surely 'twere not temptations in common but some singular ones that these Young men were under: the Babes meet with common ones, but these with special ones,
