Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 110:6

6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies : he shall wound the heads over many countries.

Either, 1. conquer and govern them: or rather, 2. condemn and punish them, as it is explained in the following clauses, and as this word is used Gen. 15. 14. Rom. 2. 1, 2. 1 Pet. 4. 6. and elsewhere.

Or, the place of battel, which is necessarily supposed in the fight, and therefore may very well be understood.

Of his enemies slain by his hand, and lying in the field in great numbers and heaps, and that unburied to their greater infamy.

Heb. the head. Which may be understood either, 1. of some one person and eminent adversary of Christ and of his Kingdom, either the Devil, by comparing this with Gen. 3. 15. Heb. 2. 14. who was indeed the Head or Ruler of many Countries, and indeed of all Nations, except that of Israel, or the Roman Empire, which was the great enemy and obstructer of Christs Kingdom, and therefore was to be destroyed by him, as is declared Dan. 2. 44. 45. & 7. 7, &c. or the great Antichrist, or the Beast after which the whole World wondered, Revel. 13. 3. which Christ will destroy, as we read 2 Thess. 2. 8. and in divers places of S. Iohns Revelation. Or, 2. of all those Heads or Princes which oppose him, the Singular number Head being here put collectively for Heads, as is very usual in the Hebrew Tongue and Text. And so the meaning is, that none of Christs enemies, though never so many or great, and their Empire be never so large and potent, shall be able to withstand his force, or escape out of his hand; and that he shall not onely destroy the common Souldiers, but also their greatest Commanders and Princes, who in such cases do frequently make their escape. But this and the other like passages both here and in the Prophets, are not to be understood grosly and carnally, but spiritually, according to the nature of Christs Kingdom, the weapons of Christs warfare, by which he accomplisheth his great works, being spiritual; and therefore such must be his battels and judgments, as is evident from many other Scriptures, although these also are followed many times with temporal plagues.

Marginal references: Or, great.