THE SECOND PSALM OF EACH BOOK HAS TO DO WITH THE ENEMY. See App-10. WHY. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Repeat at beginning of Psalms 2:2. Compare Acts 4:25; Acts 4:26. HEATHEN. nations. Note the quadruple _Anabasis_ (App-6): nations, peoples, kings, rulers. Compare Psalms 1:1. RAGE. tumul... [ Continue Reading ]
SET THEMSELVES. take their stand. TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER. have gathered by appointment. So the Septuagint and Aramaean. Compare Psalms 48:4. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. ANOINTED. Messiah. So Psalms 18:50; Psalms 20:6; Psalms 28:8; Psalms 84:9; Psalms 89:38; Psalms 89:51;... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR: i.e. Jehovah's, and Messiah's.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAUGH. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. THE LORD*. Primitive text was Jehovah. Altered by the _Sopherim_ to Adonai. See App-32.... [ Continue Reading ]
SET. founded. Not the same word as Psalms 2:2. MY HOLY HILL. Figure of speech _Antimeria_ (App-6). Hebrew. "mount of my Sanctuary". HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. ZION. The mount immediately south of Moriah. See note on 2 Samuel 5:7. Occurs thirty-eight times in Psalms. "Jerusalem" occurs seventee... [ Continue Reading ]
THE. for a. THOU ART MY SON. Quoted in Acts 13:33.Hebrews 1:5; Hebrews 5:5. This is the Divine formula for anointing. Compare Matthew 3:17, for Prophet; Matthew 17:5, for Priest; and Hebrews 1:5; Hebrews 1:6, for King. BEGOTTEN THEE. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_ (App-6). It refers to resurrec... [ Continue Reading ]
ASK OF ME. Referring not to this present dispensation of grace, but to coming dispensation of judgment. I SHALL GIVE, &C. Quoted in Revelation 2:27; Revelation 12:5; Revelation 19:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
BREAK THEM. rule, or govern them. So Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. ROD. sceptre. IRON. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for unbending authority.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE WISE. Figure of speech _Apostrophe._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _'eth_ Jehovah. App-4. (objective).... [ Continue Reading ]
KISS. submit to, or be ruled by. Hebrew. _nashak._ Occurs thirty-two times (first in Genesis 27:26; Genesis 27:27). Always so rendered except 1 Chronicles 12:2; 2 Chronicles 17:17. 2Ch 78:9 (where it is Poel Part.) "armed"; Ezekiel 3:13 "touched" (margin "kissed"); and Genesis 41:40, "be ruled" (mar... [ Continue Reading ]