Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · Psalms Capítulo 24

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Psalms Capítulo 24

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Ps 24:1-10.

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Ps 24:1-10.

God's supreme sovereignty requires a befitting holiness of life and heart in His worshippers; a sentiment sublimely illustrated by describing His entrance into the sanctuary, by the symbol of His worship--the ark, as requiring the most profound homage to the glory of His Majesty.

1. fulness--everything.

world--the habitable globe, with

they that dwell--forming a parallel expression to the first clause.

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2. Poetically represents the facts of

Ge 1:9.

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3, 4. The form of a question gives vivacity. Hands, tongue, and heart are organs of action, speech, and feeling, which compose character.

hill of the Lord--(compare

Ps 2:6,

&c.). His Church--the true or invisible, as typified by the earthly sanctuary.

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4. lifted up his soul--is to set the affections

(Ps 25:1)

on an object; here,

vanity--or, any false thing, of which swearing falsely, or to falsehood, is a specification.

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5. righteousness--the rewards which God bestows on His people, or the grace to secure those rewards as well as the result.

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6. Jacob--By "Jacob," we may understand God's people (compare

Isa 43:22; 44:2,

&c.), corresponding to "the generation," as if he had said, "those who seek Thy face are Thy chosen people."

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7-10. The entrance of the ark, with the attending procession, into the holy sanctuary is pictured to us. The repetition of the terms gives emphasis.

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10. Lord of hosts--or fully, Lord God of hosts

(Ho 12:5; Am 4:13),

describes God by a title indicative of supremacy over all creatures, and especially the heavenly armies

(Jos 5:14; 1Ki 22:19).

Whether, as some think, the actual enlargement of the ancient gates of Jerusalem be the basis of the figure, the effect of the whole is to impress us with a conception of the matchless majesty of God.