This would make a man, a man of salt,
To use his eyes for garden water-pots.
Shakespeare, King Lear, act iv. sc. 6 (1605).
Man of Sedan, Napoleon III. So called because he surrendered his sword to William, king of Prussia, after the battle of Sedan in September, 1870.
(Born in the Rue Lafitte, 1808; reigned 1852-1870; died at Chiselhurst, 1873).
Man of Sin (The), mentioned in 2 Thess. ii. 3.
Whitby says the “Man of sin” means the Jews as a people.
Grotius says it means Caius Cæsar or else Caligula.
Wetstein says it is Titus.
Olshausen thinks it is typical of some one yet to come.