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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown :: Commentary on Psalm 24

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The Book of Psalms

Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET

PSALM 24

Psa 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.

      2. Poetically represents the facts of Gen 1:9.

      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 Psa 2:6, &c.). His Church--the true or invisible, as typified by the earthly sanctuary.

      4. lifted up his soul--is to set the affections ( Psa 25:1 ) on an object; here,
      vanity--or, any false thing, of which swearing falsely, or to falsehood, is a specification.

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

      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."

      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.

      10. Lord of hosts--or fully, Lord God of hosts ( Hsa 12:5 Amo 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.

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