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This short psalm sets forth the honour of the kingdom of God among men, to his glory, the terror of his enemies, and the comfort of all his loving subjects. It relates both to the kingdom of his providence, by which he upholds and governs the world, and especially to the kingdom of his grace, by which he secures the church, sanctifies and preserves it. The administration of both these kingdoms is put into the hands of the Messiah, and to him, doubtless, the prophet here hears witness, and to his kingdom, speaking of it as present, because sure; and because, as the eternal Word, even before his incarnation he was Lord of all. Concerning God's kingdom glorious things are here spoken. I. Have other kings their royal robes? So has he, Ps 93:1. II. Have they their thrones? So has he, Ps 93:2. III. Have they their enemies whom they subdue and triumph over? So has he, Ps 93:3,4. IV. Is it their honour to be faithful and holy? So it is his, Ps 93:5. In singing this psalm we forget ourselves if we forget Christ, to whom the Father has given all power both in heaven and in earth.
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The Glory and Majesty of God
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神的榮耀與威嚴
¹ 耶和華作王！他以威嚴為衣穿上；耶和華以能力為衣，以能力束腰，世界就堅定，不得動搖。 ² 你的寶座從太初立定；你從亙古就有。 ³ 耶和華啊，大水揚起，大水發聲，波浪澎湃。 ⁴ 耶和華在高處大有能力，勝過諸水的響聲，洋海的大浪。 ⁵ 耶和華啊，你的法度最為確實；你的殿永稱為聖，是合宜的。
除了神的存在之外，我們最當相信和思考的，莫過於神的掌權——耶和華是神，這位神作王（詩 93:1）：他不僅在權利上是君王，是一切人物的所有者和主人，更在實際上是君王，按著自己旨意所喜悅的，引導和安排一切受造之物和一切作為。這在此詩和許多別的詩篇中被頌讚：*「耶和華作王！」這是福音教會、得榮耀的教會之歌（啟 19:6）：「哈利路亞！因為主——我們的神、全能者作王了。」*這裏告訴我們他是怎樣作王。
一、耶和華作王，作得榮耀：*「他以威嚴為衣穿上。」*屬世的君王的威嚴，與神那可畏的威嚴相比，不過如螢火蟲的微光與烈日當空之輝煌相比一般。神國度的仇敵雖然強大可畏嗎？我們仍不要懼怕他們，因為神的威嚴必使他們黯然失色。
二、他作王，作得大有能力。他不僅如宮廷中的君王以威嚴為衣，更如營中的元帥*「以能力為衣」。他有足夠的能力支持他的偉大，並使它真正可畏。看他不仅披著袍服，更披著鎧甲。「能力與威嚴是他的衣服。」他能作一切的事，在他沒有難成的事。1. 他「以能力束腰」；這能力不是從別處領受的，其執行也不依賴別人，乃是他自己所擁有的，並以此隨己意行事。我們不要懼怕那借用而有限的人的權勢，當懼怕那能殺身體並投在地獄裏的。2. 世界今日仍然存立，乃是因這大能。「世界就堅定」——起初因神創造的大能而如此，那時他將其立在諸水之上；如今仍因那托住萬有、乃是持續創造的護理而如此；它被堅定到一個地步，雖然他「將大地懸在虛空」（伯 26:7），卻「不得動搖」；萬物「都照他的法令存到今日。」*請注意：大自然能力的保存和自然定律的運行，理當歸榮耀給自然之神；我們日日從中得益，若不將榮耀歸給他，便是極其疏忽和忘恩。神雖以威嚴為衣，卻俯首眷顧這下方的世界，治理其中的事務；他既堅定了世界，就必更加堅定他的教會，使她不得動搖。
三、他作王，作得永遠（詩 93:2）：「你的寶座從太初立定。」1. 神治理世界的權利，建立在他創造世界的事實上；那賜世界存在的，無疑可以為世界設定律法；所以他對政權的所有權是無可置疑的：「你的寶座立定」——這是毫無瑕疵的權利。它又是古老的：「從太初立定」——從時間的起頭，早於任何別的政權、執政的或掌權的設立，正如它必在一切別的政權、執政的、掌權的被廢去之時仍舊存留（林前 15:24）。2. 他整個政府的施行，在萬世之前便已在他永恆的旨意中定規；因為他乃是照著自己在自己裏麵所定的旨意行作萬事；護理的車輦從銅山之間出來——從那些如永固之山一般的定旨而來（亞 6:1）：「你從亙古就有」——因此*「你的寶座從太初立定」*；因為神自己從亙古就有，他的寶座和寶座的一切定旨便也是如此；因為在永恆的心思中，不可能沒有永恆的思想。
四、他作王，作得勝利凱旋（詩 93:3-4）。我們在此看到：1. 假定的一場威脅的風暴：「耶和華啊，大水揚起！」（這抗議是向神自己陳明的）「大水發聲」——這說出可怖；不但如此，「波浪澎湃」——這說出實際的危險。它指向洶湧的海，正如惡人被比作的那種（賽 57:20）。「外邦為甚麼爭鬧」（詩 2:1），想要毀滅教會，如同洪水要將她淹沒，如同船在海中要沉沒。教會被說成「被風浪翻騰」（賽 54:11），而「匪類的急流」使聖徒「害怕」（詩 18:4）。我們也可以將此應用於我們自己心中因強烈的情感和恐懼所引起的風波——它們使靈陷入混亂，要推翻她的恩典和安慰；但主若在那裏作王，連風和海也必聽從他。2. 在這風暴中拋下的一個不動搖的錨（詩 93:4）：「耶和華自己更有能力。」讓這保守我們的心意堅定：1. 神在高處，在他們之上，這表明他的安全（他們不能及他，詩 29:10）和他的主權；他們受他統治，被他所勝，在其中他們反叛之處，被他所克（出 18:11）。2. 他「更有能力」——比*「諸水的響聲」作更奇妙的事*；他們不能擾亂他的安息或治理；他們不能挫敗他的計劃和旨意。請注意：教會仇敵的權勢不過如「諸水的響聲」；其中有更多的是聲音而非實質。*「埃及王法老不過是個聲音」（耶 46:17）。*教會的朋友通常被嚇得過了實際所受的損害。神比這聲音更有能力；他大有能力保守百姓的利益不致被這些大水毀壞，並保守百姓的心靈不致被這聲音驚嚇。他何時樂意，何時便能向教會命定平安（詩 65:7），向靈魂命定平安（賽 26:3）。請注意：偉大的耶和華那無限的主權和不可抗拒的大能，對神的百姓是極大的鼓勵——相對於他們在世上所遇的一切喧嘩和擾亂（詩 46:1-2）。
五、他作王，按真理和聖潔（詩 93:5）。1. 他一切的應許都是不可違背地信實：*「你的法度最為確實。」神既能保護他的教會，也就對他所應許的安全和得勝信實守約。他的話已經賜下，一切聖徒都可倚靠。凡論到彌賽亞國度所預言的，到了時候必確然成就。舊約聖徒的信和盼望所建立其上的那些法度極其確實，必不致叫他們失望。2. 他一切的百姓當敬虔地純潔：「耶和華啊，你的殿永稱為聖，是合宜的。」*神的教會就是他的殿；那是聖潔的殿，從罪中得潔淨，被神獻為聖，並從事他的事奉。她的聖潔就是她的美麗（沒有甚麼比效法神的形象、全然奉獻歸給他的尊榮更適合聖徒）；這也是她的力量和安全；正是神殿的聖潔保守她免受大水和大水的響聲之害。哪裏有純潔，那裏就必有平安。時尚改變，這一個時候合宜的，在另一個時候便不如此；但聖潔永遠適合神的殿和他的家、以及屬他的人；它是永遠端莊合宜的；沒有甚麼比不聖潔更不適合聖潔之神的敬拜者。
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The Glory and Majesty of God
¹ The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
² Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
³ The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
⁴ The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
⁵ Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Next to the being of God there is nothing that we are more concerned to believe and consider than God's dominion, that Jehovah is God, and that this God reigns (Ps 93:1), not only that he is King of right, and is the owner and proprietor of all persons and things, but that he is King in fact, and does direct and dispose of all the creatures and all their actions according to the counsel of his own will. This is celebrated here, and in many other psalms: The Lord reigns. It is the song of the gospel church, of the glorified church (Re 19:6), Hallelujah; the Lord God omnipotent reigns. Here we are told how he reigns.
I. The Lord reigns gloriously: He is clothed with majesty. The majesty of earthly princes, compared with God's terrible majesty, is but like the glimmerings of a glow-worm compared with the brightness of the sun when he goes forth in his strength. Are the enemies of God's kingdom great and formidable? Yet let us not fear them, for God's majesty will eclipse theirs.
II. He reigns powerfully. He is not only clothed with majesty, as a prince in his court, but he is clothed with strength, as a general in the camp. He has wherewithal to support his greatness and to make it truly formidable. See him not only clad in robes, but clad in armour. Both strength and honour are his clothing. He can do every thing, and with him nothing is impossible. 1. With this power he has girded himself; it is not derived from any other, nor does the executing of it depend upon any other, but he has it of himself and with it does whatsoever he pleases. Let us not fear the power of man, which is borrowed and bounded, but fear him who has power to kill and cast into hell. 2. To this power it is owing that the world stands to this day. The world also is established; it was so at first, by the creating power of God, when he founded it upon the seas; it is so still, by that providence which upholds all things and is a continued creation; it is so established that though he has hanged the earth upon nothing (Job 26:7) yet it cannot be moved; all things continue to this day, according to his ordinance. Note, The preserving of the powers of nature and the course of nature is what the God of nature must have the glory of; and we who have the benefit thereof daily are very careless and ungrateful if we give him not the glory of it. Though God clothes himself with majesty, yet he condescends to take care of this lower world and to settle its affairs; and, if he established the world, much more will he establish his church, that it cannot be moved.
III. He reigns eternally (Ps 93:2): Thy throne is established of old. 1. God's right to rule the world is founded in his making it; he that gave being to it, no doubt, may give law to it, and so his title to the government is incontestable: Thy throne is established; it is a title without a flaw in it. And it is ancient: it is established of old, from the beginning of time, before any other rule, principality, or power was erected, as it will continue when all other rule, principality, and power shall be put down, 1Co 15:24. 2. The whole administration of his government was settled in his eternal counsels before all worlds; for he does all according to the purpose which he purposed in himself; The chariots of Providence came down from between the mountains of brass, from those decrees which are fixed as the everlasting mountains (Zec 6:1): Thou art from everlasting, and therefore thy throne is established of old; because God himself was from everlasting, his throne and all the determinations of it were so too; for in an eternal mind there could not but be eternal thoughts.
IV. He reigns triumphantly, Ps 93:3,4. We have here, 1. A threatening storm supposed: The floods have lifted up, O Lord! (to God himself the remonstrance is made) the floods have lifted up their voice, which speaks terror; nay, they have lifted up their waves, which speaks real danger. It alludes to a tempestuous sea, such as the wicked are compared to, Isa 57:20. The heathen rage (Ps 2:1) and think to ruin the church, to overwhelm it like a deluge, to sink it like a ship at sea. The church is said to be tossed with tempests (Isa 54:11), and the floods of ungodly men make the saints afraid, Ps 18:4. We may apply it to the tumults that are sometimes in our own bosoms, through prevailing passions and frights, which put the soul into disorder, and are ready to overthrow its graces and comforts; but, if the Lord reign there, even the winds and seas shall obey him. 2. An immovable anchor cast in this storm (Ps 93:4): The Lord himself is mightier. Let this keep our minds fixed, (1.) That God is on high, above them, which denotes his safety (they cannot reach him, Ps 29:10) and his sovereignty; they are ruled by him, they are overruled, and, wherein they rebel, overcome, Ex 18:11. (2.) That he is mightier, does more wondrous things than the noise of many waters; they cannot disturb his rest or rule; they cannot defeat his designs and purposes. Observe, The power of the church's enemies is but as the noise of many waters; there is more of sound than substance in it. Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise, Jer 46:17. The church's friends are commonly more frightened than hurt. God is mightier than this noise; he is mighty to preserve his people's interests from being ruined by these many waters and his people's spirits from being terrified by the noise of them. He can, when he pleases, command peace to the church (Ps 65:7), peace in the soul, Isa 26:3. Note, The unlimited sovereignty and irresistible power of the great Jehovah are very encouraging to the people of God, in reference to all the noises and hurries they meet with in this world, Ps 46:1,2.
V. He reigns in truth and holiness, Ps 93:5. 1. All his promises are inviolably faithful: Thy testimonies are very sure. As God is able to protect his church, so he is true to the promises he has made of its safety and victory. His word is passed, and all the saints may rely upon it. Whatever was foretold concerning the kingdom of the Messiah would certainly have its accomplishment in due time. Those testimonies upon which the faith and hope of the Old-Testament saints were built were very sure, and would not fail them. 2. All his people ought to be conscientiously pure: Holiness becomes thy house, O Lord! for ever. God's church is his house; it is a holy house, cleansed from sin, consecrated by God, and employed in his service. The holiness of it is its beauty (nothing better becomes the saints than conformity to God's image and an entire devotedness to his honour), and it is its strength and safety; it is the holiness of God's house that secures it against the many waters and their noise. Where there is purity there shall be peace. Fashions change, and that which is becoming at one time is not so at another; but holiness always becomes God's house and family, and those who belong to it; it is perpetually decent; and nothing so ill becomes the worshippers of the holy God as unholiness.
這篇短短的詩陳明神在人中間之國度的尊榮——為祂的榮耀，使祂的仇敵驚惶，使一切愛祂的子民得安慰。它既論及祂護理的國度——藉此祂托住並治理萬有；更論及祂恩典的國度——藉此祂保護教會、使之成聖並蒙保守。這兩個國度的治理都交在彌賽亞手中；先知在此無疑是為祂、並為祂的國度作見證，將這國說成現在的，因為它是確定的；又因為祂作為永恆的道，即使在道成肉身之前，就已為萬有之主。本篇論及神的國，說了許多榮耀的事：一、別的王有御袍嗎？祂也有（詩 93:1）；二、他們有寶座嗎？祂也有（詩 93:2）；三、他們有仇敵，是他們所制伏並勝過的嗎？祂也有（詩 93:3,4）；四、信實與聖潔是他們的尊榮嗎？這更是祂的尊榮（詩 93:5）。我們唱這詩時，若忘記了基督——父已將天上地下所有的權柄都賜給了祂——便是忘記了自己。