PSALM XCVI _All the inhabitants of the earth are invited to praise the_ _Lord_, 1-3. _His supreme majesty_, 3-6. _The tribes of Israel are invited to glorify him_, 7-9; _and to proclaim him among the heathen_, 10. _The heavens and the earth are commanded to rejoice in him_, 11-13. NOTES ON P... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:2. _SHOW FORTH HIS SALVATION FROM DAY TO DAY._] The original is very emphatic, בשרו מיום ליום ישועתו _basseru miyom leyom_ _yeshuatho_ "Preach the Gospel of his salvation from day to day." To the same effect the Septuagint, Ευαγγελιζεσθε ἡμεραν εξ ἡμερας το σωτηριον αυτου, "Evangel... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:3. _DECLARE HIS GLORY AMONG THE HEATHEN._] The heathen do not know the true God: as his being and attributes are at the foundation of all religion, these are the first subjects of instruction for the Gentile world. _Declare_, ספרו sapperu, detail, _number out_ his _glory_, כבודו kebo... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:4. _HE_ IS _TO BE FEARED ABOVE ALL GODS._] I think the two clauses of this verse should be read thus: - Jehovah is great, and greatly to be praised. Elohim is to be feared above all. I doubt whether the word אלהים _Elohim_ is ever, by fair construction, applied to false gods or id... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:5. _ALL THE GODS OF THE NATIONS_ ARE _IDOLS_] אלהי _elohey_. All those reputed or worshipped as gods among the heathens are אלילים _elilim, vanities, emptinesses, things of nought_. Instead of being _Elohim_, they are _elilim_; they are not only not GOD, but they are _nothing_." "Jeh... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:6. _HONOUR AND MAJESTY ARE BEFORE HIM_] Does this refer to the cloud of his glory that preceded the ark in their journeying through the wilderness? The words _strength_ and _beauty_, and _glory_ _and strength_, Psalms 96:7, are those by which the ark is described, Psalms 78:61.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:7. _YE KINDREDS OF THE PEOPLE_] Ye families, all the _tribes_ of Israel in your respective _divisions_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:8. _COME INTO HIS COURTS._] Probably referring to the _second_ _temple_. The reference must be either to the _tabernacle_ or _temple_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:9. _WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS_] I think בהדרת קדש _behadrath kodesh_, signifies _holy ornaments_, such as the high priest wore in his ministrations. These were given him for _glory_ and _beauty_; and the psalmist calls on him to put on his sacerdotal garments, to bri... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:10. _SAY AMONG THE HEATHEN_ THAT _THE LORD REIGNETH_] _Justin_ _Martyr_, in his dialogue with _Trypho_ the Jew, quotes this passage thus: Ειπατε εν τοις εθνεσι, ὁ Κυριος εβασιλευσε απο του ξυλου, "Say among the nations, the Lord ruleth _by the wood_," meaning the _cross_; and accus... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:11. _LET THE HEAVENS REJOICE_] The publication of the Gospel is here represented as a universal blessing; the _heavens_, the _earth_, the _sea_, and its _inhabitants_, the _field_, the _grass,_ and the _trees_ of the _wood_, are all called to rejoice at this glorious event. This vers... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:12. _Thou sal glad al the trese of woddes. - Thou_, that is in another Iyfe. _Trese of woddes. _- Synful men that were fyrst withouten frut, and sithen taken into God's temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Psalms 96:13. _For he coms, he coms. He coms_, fyrste to be man. - Sythen _he comes_ to deme the erth. _He sal deme in evenes the erth: - and folk in his sothfastnes._ Nothing is evener, or sothfaster, than that he geder with hym perfyte men; to deme and to deperte to the rig hande (thaim) th... [ Continue Reading ]