PSALM 95 THE ARGUMENT The author of this Psalm was David, as is affirmed, HEBREWS 4:7; and although this Psalm be delivered in general terms, as an invitation to mankind to yield unto the true God that praise, and worship, and obedience which he requireth and deserveth, yet it hath a special referen... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS PRESENCE; which he will then afford us in a singular manner, in his Son the Messiah, in and by whom he will be visibly present with the sons of men.... [ Continue Reading ]
Above all that are accounted and called GODS, angels, and earthly potentates, and especially the false gods of the heathens, which upon Christ's coming into the world were struck dumb, and could no more deliver their oracles, as Plutarch and other heathens observed, with admiration, nor deceive the... [ Continue Reading ]
IN HIS HAND; under his government. THE DEEP PLACES; those parts which are far out of men's sight and reach, and much more those that are at men's disposal. THE STRENGTH OF THE HILLS; the strongest or highest mountains are under his feet, and at his disposal. The sense of the verse is, All the parts... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
By which expressions he teacheth that even in gospel times God is to be glorified and worshipped, as well with the members of our bodies, as with the faculties of our souls.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR GOD, in a peculiar manner; and therefore it will be most unreasonable and abominable for us to forsake him, when the Gentiles submit to his law. _The people of his pasture_; whom he feedeth and keepeth in his own proper pasture, or in the land which he hath appropriated to himself. THE SHEEP OF... [ Continue Reading ]
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEART, by wilful disobedience and obstinate unbelief, rebelling against the light, and resisting the Holy Ghost, and his clear discoveries of the truth of the gospel. AS IN THE PROVOCATION; as you did in that bold and wicked contest with God in the wilderness. Or, AS IN MERIBAH, whic... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN; or, _in which place_; which may belong either to Meribah and Massah, or to the wilderness last mentioned. Or, _surely_, as this word is oft used in Scripture, as hath been observed once and again. AND SAW; or, _although_ or _after that they saw_ or _had seen_; which is added as a just and grea... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THIS GENERATION; or rather, with that generation which then lived, who were your ancestors. DO ERR IN THEIR HEART; they do not only sin through infirmity, and the violence and surprisal of temptations, but their hearts are insincere and inconstant, and given to backsliding, and therefore there... [ Continue Reading ]
Being full of just wrath against them, I passed an irreversible sentence, and confirmed it by an oath; of which we read NUM 14. INTO MY REST; into the Promised Land, which is called the rest, DEUTERONOMY 12:9. See also 1 CHRONICLES 23:25 PSALMS 132:14. And this history the psalmist propounds to the... [ Continue Reading ]