Darby's translation notes (1890)
Psalms 8:4
8:4 man, (q-3) Enosh , 'feeble,' 'mortal man,' man looked at as a race, in contrast with distinguished individuals. see Genesis 4:26 ; Psalms 144:3 . man, (r-14) Adam . visitest (s-17) Or 'regardest.'
8:4 man, (q-3) Enosh , 'feeble,' 'mortal man,' man looked at as a race, in contrast with distinguished individuals. see Genesis 4:26 ; Psalms 144:3 . man, (r-14) Adam . visitest (s-17) Or 'regardest.'
Verse Psalms 8:4. _WHAT IS MAN_] מה אנוש _mah enosh_, what is wretched, miserable man; man in his fallen state, full of infirmity, ignorance, and sin? _THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM?_] That thou sette...
WHAT IS MAN - What claim has one so weak, and frail, and short-lived, to be remembered by time? What is there in man that entitles him to so much notice? Why has God conferred on him so signal honor?...
Psalms 8 THE SON OF MAN: ALL THINGS PUT UNDER HIS FEET _ 1. A little lower than the angels; crowned with glory (Psalms 8:1)_ 2. All things put under Him (Psalms 8:6) 3. How excellent is Thy Name o...
VIII. A NATURE PSALM. Psalms 8:1 f. The majesty of God. In Matthew 2 defies the rudiments of Heb. grammar and all attempt at translation. Of many emendations the following is the most ingenious and do...
WHAT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Quoted in Hebrews 2:5. Compare 1 Corinthians 15:27 and Ephesians 1:22. MAN. mortal man. Hebrew. _'enosh._ MINDFUL... VISITEST. Figure o
WHAT IS MAN—AND THE SON OF MAN?— Bishop Patrick, in his preface to the Paraphrase on the Psalms, has made a remark which we here subjoin, as it gives light to this, and several other passages of Scrip...
PSALMS 8 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Jehovah's Majesty Exalted by means of Man's Dominion. ANALYSIS An Original Solo, Psalms 8:3-8: Adapted to Temple Worship by Prelude and Refrain, Psalms 8:1 a, b, and...
_WHAT IS MAN, THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM? AND THE SON OF MAN, THAT THOU VISITEST HIM?_ How condescending that the Creator of such glorious luminaries (Psalms 8:3) should stoop to make man [literall...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
MAN... SON OF MAN... — The first, possibly, with suggestion of frailty; the second to his life derived from human ancestry. The answer to this question must always touch the two poles, of human frailt...
_[Psalms 8:5]_ מָֽה ־אֱנֹ֥ושׁ כִּֽי ־תִזְכְּרֶ֑נּוּ וּ...
Psalms 8:1 THE exclamation which begins and ends this psalm, enclosing it as a jewel in a setting, determines its theme as being neither the nightly heaven with all its stars, nor the dignity of man,...
This is a great song of worship. It opens and closes with the same words. These words enclose the psalm, and create its burden. The matters between are proofs of the opening and closing statements. Th...
What is (b) man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (b) It was sufficient for him to have set forth his glory by the heavens, though he had not come so low as t...
_Fingers, as if they had been formed in play, while the Incarnation is the work of God's right hand. (Eusebius) (Calmet) --- Heavens, moon, and stars, denote the Church. No mention is made of the sun,...
The Psalmist is here lost in admiration. He contemplates the heavenly bodies, those bright luminaries the moon and the stars. He doth not notice the sun; probably it was night when this meditation on...
_GOD MINDFUL OF MAN_ ‘What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?’ Psalms 8:4 I. THE THOUGHT WHICH LIES BEHIND THIS TEXT IS OF FAR DEEPER INTENSITY NOW TH...
We have now come to Psalms 8 which closes this unfolding of the condition of the remnant, and the counsels of God as to the rejected Anointed of Jehovah. What is said is still by the mouth of the now...
WHAT IS MAN, THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM?.... That is, the psalmist, while he was considering the greatness and glory of the celestial bodies, thought this within himself, and so expressed it; which...
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Ver. 4. _What is man, that thou art mindful of him?_] Sorry, sickly man, a mass of mortalities, a map of miserie...
_When I consider thy heavens_ Thine by creation, as it follows; _the work of thy fingers_ Of _thy hands_, as it is expressed Psalms 102:25, a part being here put for the whole, and God's _hand_ and _f...
what is man that Thou art mindful of him, that the great God should spend any thoughts upon human nature, so far below Him that a comparison is not possible, AND THE SON OF MAN, THAT THOU VISITEST HIM...
THE GLORY OF MESSIAH'S NAME. To the chief musician, for liturgical performance, upon Gittith, a form of zither, named from the Philistine city of Gath, where the author had lived for some time. A psa...
3-9 We are to consider the heavens, that man thus may be directed to set his affections on things above. What is man, so mean a creature, that he should be thus honoured! so sinful a creature, that h...
WHAT, i.e. how mean and inconsiderable a thing is man, if compared with thy glorious Majesty, who art so infinite in power and wisdom, as thou hast showed in the frame of the heavens, &c. Man, Heb. _i...
Psalms 8:4 man H582 mindful H2142 (H8799) son H1121 man H120 visit H6485 (H8799) What -...
‘When I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars which you have ordained, What is man ('enosh) that you are mindful of him? And the son of man (ben adam) that you visi...
Psalms 8:4 Man stands on the frontier of two worlds. There is a supernatural sphere, and man's connection with it is his glory, his endowments from it his highest treasures. "Made a little lower than...
Psalms 8:3 I. True greatness consists, not in weight and extension, but in intellectual power and moral worth. When the Psalmist looked up to the heavens, he was at first overwhelmed with a sense of h...
Psalms 8:4 I. The thought which lies behind this text is of far deeper intensity now than when it was first uttered by the awe-stricken Psalmist. The author of this eighth Psalm could have had but a...
Psalms 8:3 These words express a conviction which lies at the root of all natural as well as all revealed religion, a conviction which may be regarded as a distinctive feature, which separates that c...
8 _:_ 1. _O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens._ They are very high, but thy glory is higher than the heavens. Psalms 8:2. Out of the...
CONTENTS: Meditation on the majesty of God's works and the insignificance of man. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we consider the majesty of God's wonderful works in the universe, we cannot...
Psalms 8:1. _How excellent is thy name._ See note on Proverbs 18:10. Psalms 8:2. _Thou hast ordained strength._ For some reason the LXX read αινον, _praise._ So our Saviour, it would seem, cited this...
_When I consider Thy heavens._ CONSIDERING That is what people will not do. They are thoughtless, superficial, frivolous; they do not sit down and put things together and add them up, and ask the me...
_How excellent is Thy name in all the earth! _ DAVID’S POETICAL SENSITIVENESS In all probability this Psalm is the first, or at all events one of the very first, David ever wrote. It breathes the sp...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 8:1. This hymn of praise helps the Lord’s people celebrate their glorious Creator, and their privileged place in his creation. With Genesis 1:1 as
INTRODUCTION “This is a psalm of thanksgiving to God for the exaltation of man above all terrestrial creatures. It is quoted by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews with reference to Christ; but w...
EXPOSITION Psalm VIII. is altogether a psalm of praise and thanksgiving. Its primary idea is the condescending love and goodness of God towards man. That God, who had made the heavens, and sot his glo...
Psa 8:1-9 is to the chief musician upon Gittith. Now Gittith means wine press, and so you have the thought of the harvest in the sense, actually, of judgment. The time of harvest has come. O LORD, ou...
1 Peter 2:12; 2 Chronicles 6:18; Exodus 4:31; Ezekiel 8:15; Genesis 21
What is man — How mean and inconsiderable a thing is man, if compared with thy glorious majesty. Man — Heb. infirm, or miserable man. By which it is apparent that he speaks of man, not according to th...