_Canticle. David composed it for the Levites going on duty, (Haydock) or Solomon for the dedication of the temple. The people might use it on the last day of the three great festivals; or the Levites are exhorted to watch carefully. They may excite each other, (ver. 2.; Calmet) as all Christians sho... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lift up. This posture was very natural, and expressive, 1 Timothy ii. 8. (Haydock) --- Agatharcides testifies, that the Jews did no servile work on the sabbath, but "stretched for their hands to pray in the temple, till the evening." (Josephus, contra App. 1.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
PSALM CXXXIII. (ECCE NUNC BENEDICITE.) An exhortation to praise God continually.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thee. "A Levite on guard answers the cantor," (Houbigant) or the priests say this to the people, when they were departing home, Numbers vi. 23. (Calmet) --- Earth. All things were made to praise God. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]