Isaiah 25:7,8

And he will destroy, &c.— Vitringa thinks, with the Chaldee, that the covering and vail here spoken of mean Death; that mighty ruler, who covers the whole race of men with his black garment, and hides them in obscure night; that by the face of this covering, which is the face of death, are meant the miseries, calamities, afflictions, and persecutions, which believers in that country should sustain on account of their religion, under various forms and appearances; as well as the ministers of those evils, the instruments of Satan, the irreligious kings and princes of the world; and that by the taking away, or swallowing up the face of this covering, are designed the abolition of this persecution and trouble, and the entire destruction of all the public persecutors of the true church, in that land more especially. The comparison is fine, and worthy of our prophet; and the next verse is exegetical of it, wherein, however, such great and excellent things are said, that it does not become us to affix any mean or limited sense to them; for though the words primarily refer to the public persecutions of those times, yet there can be no doubt that they have a much higher reference, as appears abundantly from 1 Corinthians 15:54. See also Revelation 20:14 and, respecting their historical completion, a remarkable passage in Genesis 14:6, &c. For the rest, they will not have their full and ultimate completion till that day, when there shall be no more death, and God himself shall wipe away all tears from all eyes. See Revelation 21:4.