I will cast lit. -I am casting" i.e. am about to cast. Cf. -I ascend", John 20:17.

a bed Perhaps of sickness, as "death" in the next v.is perhaps to be taken of pestilence: cf. Revelation 6:8.

with her Possibly the sense is "I will cast them together with her into …," but the sense "the partners of her adulteries" is at least equally natural. It seems probably intended, that she and they are to be separated in punishment: Francesca's "Questi che mai da me non fia diviso" is rather a poetical sentiment than a moral one. But if Jezebel be understood to mean a sect rather than an individual woman, it will be possible to distinguish her "adulteries" as metaphorical from the literal "fornication" which she encouraged: if so, her paramours are the false teachers, her children their disciples.

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