PSALM 148 THE ARGUMENT. The nature of this Psalm is for substance the same with the former, containing an invitation to all the creatures to praise God for his manifold blessings. The psalmist exhorteth all celestial and terrestrial creatures, especially man, to praise God for his favour and mercy t... [ Continue Reading ]
He inviteth the angels here, and the senseless creatures afterward, to praise God; not as if the former needed, or the latter were capable of, his exhortation, but only by a poetical rapture; the design whereof is, that men by this means might be more provoked to this duty. The angels are called HOS... [ Continue Reading ]
SUN AND MOON; you which are adored by the blind heathens for gods, you are but his creatures, and therefore were obliged, if you were capable, to worship and praise him for your glorious light and powerful influences.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HEAVENS OF HEAVENS; ye highest and most glorious heavens, the place of God's throne and glorious presence, as this phrase is used, DEUTERONOMY 10:14 1 KINGS 8:27 NEHEMIAH 9:6 PSALMS 115:16. Or, ye starry heavens, which also may well be so called, because they are above the air, which is oft. call... [ Continue Reading ]
They owe their being wholly to God's good will.... [ Continue Reading ]
STABLISHED THEM FOR EVER AND EVER; either absolutely, as to the substance of them, or at least to the end of the world. He hath made them constant and incorruptible, not changeable and perishing, as the things of the lower world are. MADE A DECREE; either concerning their several courses and influen... [ Continue Reading ]
Either, 1. Dragons and serpents, which abide in the deep caverns and holes of the earth; or, 2. Whales or other sea-monsters, which dwell in the depths of the sea, which are oft called by this name, as JOB 7:12 EZEKIEL 29:3, and elsewhere, as the word here rendered DEEPS is most commonly used conc... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRE; lightnings and other fire-works of the air. VAPOURS, or fumes; hot exhalations, as the word properly signifies, as cold exhalations are comprehended under the title of snow. And both of them, arising from the earth, are here fitly mentioned as belonging to it. FULFILLING HIS WORD; executing hi... [ Continue Reading ]
Admirable for your height, and strength, and use, though not for your fruit.... [ Continue Reading ]
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KINGS OF THE EARTH; who, though you are called _gods_, and adored like gods by your subjects, yet are but men, and the creatures and subjects of this sovereign Lord, to whom you owe both your being, and all your power and dignity.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Not so much in place as in excellency, above all the glories which are in earth and in heaven.... [ Continue Reading ]
EXALTETH THE HORN OF HIS PEOPLE, to wit, above the horns of all the people in the world, in respect of their spiritual and eternal privileges, as it here follows. THE HORN in Scripture doth commonly note strength, victory, glory, and felicity, as DEUTERONOMY 33:17, and everywhere. THE PRAISE; either... [ Continue Reading ]