PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Psalms — Volume 2
George Rawlinson [1812-1902] · 374,103 words · 397 reading sections
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HOMILIES BY V.ARIOUS .AUTHORS. Vere. 1-35.-God's love for living creatures. This psalm celebrates and proves it. For, see- I. HE HAS PLACED THEM EVERYWHERE. The sea, the air, the land, all teem with it, as this psalm tells. .And the lower life points to the higher, and proclaims that when God's will is done, that, to…
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as the habitation of God, That firmament-the gloriQUS new-m cloud-caprisoned and star-bespangled heavens, whose beauty and splendour far surpass all human power t() set forth, and which id h~re spoken of as the palace of God-was the creation of the second d11y. The close of the firHt day saw the creation of the Jic,ht.…
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So high as heflv'd the tumid bills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and deep, Oapaoious bed of water~," etc. So Milt.on renders ver. 7. "'l'he mount:i.ins rose, the valleys sank down into," eto, 'l'bus by this emergence of the dry land the waters of the wild seas, hitherto flowing C'vcrywhere, are appointe…
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of the eoul, has risen, that soul will arise and toil in him and for him. He prompts, lie enables the activities of the spiritual life. 6. The day, with its light, stands also /or /oy and brightness. How the nature.I world rejoices in the light I And the gladness of the soul is in him who is the true Light. There can …
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I. WH, mn Gon CREATE MAN? Many think that life is not worth living. Exist- cnee is so much pure misfortuno. 'l'he denial of the Christian faith and hopele8S pessimism seem ever to go together. But a preliminary question may be askecl- 1Yh~- q.id God create anything? IT. WE REPLY : 1. God is love, and one necessity …
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Ver. 80.-The spiritual spring. '!'he natural is as the sphitual- I. IN WHAT IT 1B. An awakening from seeming death. In regMd to the soul, 4.08 THE BOO~ OF PSALMS. [t•s, 01v. 1-3G. St. Paul speaks of its condition ere its spring as actually "dead." Certainly to all appenrances it was so. But when the grace of God c…
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Vera. 2-4.-Nature-figures of the Divine glMy. These a.re of peculiar interest, because they appeal to me.n universally ; the language of nature is the common, universal language. Only when men attempt to express their ideas and feelings by the languages of the tongue do they get into confusions and misunderstandings an…
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Ver. 5.-The King is the Creator. "Who laid the fo1mdations of the earth." Having filled Lis soul with adoring thoughts of God, by considering his palace, his surroundings, and his attendants, the psalmist goes out into the kingdom of this eternal King, to see what he can learn of him from the provisions, and order, and…
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I. DARKNESS PROVIDES BEST FOB THE WEARY, Show the actual physical influence of darkness on men's bodies, on the muscular and nervous systems. Rest is essential for man when bis labour is merely routine labour of the body; but how much moro C'ssential is it in these modern conditions, when the toil overwears also the br…
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Ver. 21.-.Absolute dependence upon God. "These wait all upon thee, that tl:.ou mayest give them their meat in due season.'' All vegetable and animal life depen~.r on appropriate food; and though sometimes the food is at the creature's hand, i. usually has to be sought. God has arranged the economy of natnre so that …
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EXPOSITION. PSALM CV. aro full of gratitude to God for o.ll his mercies that he has vouchsafed them cannot THIB is sometimes called a "Hallelujnh refrain from speaking of his goodness when psalm," siuce it ends with tha.t phrase. It they converse with others. iB a song of praise to God for his dealings Ver. 3.-Glo…
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Oheyno concludes, from this passage, that Ver.16.-Moreover he oallad for a !11.mine the pso.lm wns not written <luring the upon the la.nd. 'l'o "call for a famine" is OnpLivity. But surely EL captive in Babylou the same thing as lo creat" a famine. might !,ave hnd faith onongh to believe What God "ca.lls for" immediate…
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o. ,oinur11er. Ae a " stranger" and " me.y do great dAme.ge to the loaves l\nd the "sojourner," Jitcob chnrged hie sons not to smaller branches. bury him in Egypt, but in tlie laud of Ver. 34.-He ~pe.ke, e.nd the locusts oama Canaan. with his fathers (Gen. xlix. 29; 1. (see Exod. x. 13, 14). And oa.terpille.rs . .'i). …
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HOMILETICS. Vers.1--45.-The testimony of history. God reveals himself in many ways; of these one is found in human history. All history may be studied, that we may understand his Divine thought and purpose; but more especially sacred history, his dealings with his ancient people. The psalmist is continually returniog …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS; Vers. 1-45.-" He watching over Israel slumbers not nor sleeps." I. A BLESSED BETROSl'EOT. 1. He knows it is blessed, because, ere the psalmist sets it down, he summons, in intensely earnest, varied, and emphatic way, all people to give thanks unto the Lord. 2. And he fells them wherefore t…
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inner man." Thnt s(rength will come to us as we are: 1. Dil(qent in prayer. 2. Faith- ful in confession of Ghrist. 3. Feeding upon the Divine Word. 4. Trying to save others. 6. Keeping on believing. III. SEEKING HIS FACE EVERMORE. 1. This tells of the joy of the Lorcl which comes to us when his face shines upon us. Le…
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lower parts of the ea1tb?" These words, supremely true of our Lord are true also of his servants. They must descend ere they ascend. The text teaches 'us- L THAT THE LORD BAS A WORD OF RIOH PROMISE FOR EACII ONE OF HIS PEOPLE, Joseph had his word; so likewise have all like him. We may not be able to discern it so c…
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displnya of nuguet power, which reached their climax in the death of the Egyptian firetborn. Deliverance by miraculous intervenUone. Ill. GoD'B REDEMPTION OF IBBAEL FROM 1TB OWN WILF'C'LNEBB. God's deliverance of a man is never complete while it deals exclusively with his circumstances and surroundings. A man ie not r…
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Ver. 15.-Divine defence. "Touch not mine anointed ones" (Revised Version). The reference is evidently to the patriarchs; and they are spoken of in the light of later associations, classified with those who received special Divine communications. " They were as kings and priests before God; therefore they are called • h…
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Vers. 23-25.-Diaciplinary experience. It is singular that in ver. 25 God should be spoken of as the agent in turning the hearts of the Egyptians to hate hi~ people. Some would soften the expression, and make it mean only that God suffered the hostility arising from the increase of the people. But there is no difficulty…
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V ers. 40, 41.-The sin of trying to malu terms with God, " The people asked, and l,e brought quails." The sin of this does not immediately strike the reader. It is not said that the people asked for quails. What we are to understand is, that God was graciously and wonderfully providing their staple food for the peop…
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EXPOSITION. 17; Rom. xi. 33-36). Who can show forth PS.ALM OVI. all his praise t i.e. "all the praise really THIS is the first of the strictly "Hallelujah due to him." Ver. 3.-Blessed are they that keep judg- psalms "-i.e. of the psalms beginning with ment, and he that doeth righteousness at the phrase "he.llelu-Jah…
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Dau. ix. 5-8). We hava committed ini- believe. They sang hia praise, Tho allu- quity ; or, "dealt perveraely" (Ko.y). We sion is to the "Song of Mose•" (Exod. xv have done wickedly. The confession is ns 1-18), in which tho Israelites gonerally brond anrl genernl as possible, including all joined (Exo,I. xv. l, 20). …
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" swallowed up;" J,e o.nd his company wore reo.dy to have destroyed all Israel, and to destroyed by fire, o.nd are alluded to in have raised ap e. new Israel out of the ver. 18 (so Hengstenberg). descendants of Mo~es, had not Moses Ver. 18.-And e. fire we.e kindled in their pleaded with extreme earm·stness on the comp…
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~acrificce of their gods," who were "dead," (Judg. i. 30); "neither did Asher drive out e.e opposed to the true living God. the inhe.bitimh of Aocho" (Judg. i. 81); Ver. 29.-Thus they provoked him to anger nor "N aphtali the inhabit1mts of Detb- with their inventions; or, with thefr doings. shemosh e.nd Deth--anath …
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xxxv. 88, "Ye ehBll not polluto the IBnd iii. 15-29), by Shamgar (Judg. iii. 31), by wherein ye Bre." The "innocent blood" Deborah and Barak (Jnrlg. iv. 4-24), by ehed in the lBnd is often declBred to have Gideon (Judg. vii. 19-25), by Jephthah been the especio.l co.use of God's nnger Judg. xi. 12-38), by Samson (Judg.…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-5.-The spirit of godliness. This, under all dispensations, is- I. THE SPIRIT OF THANKFULNESS. (Ver. 1.) The godly ma.n is he i11 whose mouth the praise of the Lord is found continually, because the spirit of gratitude is deep in hi~ heart. II. THE SPIRIT OF TRUSTFULNESS. (Ver. 1.) "His mercy en…
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Ver. 20.-Our God our glory. The "glory" of Israel was found, as this verse indicates, in the God whom her sons worshipped; not in her cultivated fields, not in her varied scenery, not in her peculiar civilization, not even in her temple and its rites, but iu her God. No other contemporary nation worshipped one, pure, r…
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earnest prayer for that grace of God which, in the psalmist's belief was indispensable for its fulfilment. ' I. TuE ASPIRATION. 1. "That I may see the good of thy chosen." Uc regards God's people 11s the subject of e. Divine choice; as, indeed, they are. There were many others who, to human eyes, seemed more worthy e.…
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psalm is his patience and long-suffering gentleness with his most trying and wilful people. Ps. cv. treated Israel chiefly as the pnssive recipient of Divine favour. Pa. c,i._ portrays Israel as continually set in opposition to Jehovah; faithful only when Rffi1cterl, Rnd succoured only to Rpostatize again. Eight illust…
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BBked, and discovered thBt self-indnlgence nourished appetite inoo pasHion, which carried them nway beyond Bll possibility of self-restraint. Indulgence involved loss of moral power. Feed the body and yon will inevitably starve the soul, bring "leanness into the soul." "The gratification of wilful and presumptuous desi…
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Yers. 19, 20.-The si'.n of the golden calf. "They changed their glory for the like- ness of an ox that eat~th grass" (Revised Version). "Into the similitudo of a calr that eateth hay" (Prayer-book Version). The idea is that the revelation of God ae an unseen spiritual Being, requiring the service of righteousness, w…
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Ver. 80.-The atonement of Phinehas. (See Numb. xxv: 11-13.) "Pbinehas, him- self perhaps a judge in authority, became the type of a righteous zeal, exercising sum- mary vengeance, informal and unbidden, against outrage on decency and on rever- ence for God" (Dr. Barry). "It is a picture of the one zealous man rising up…
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Vers. 40-46.-Man's mi,sery and Goa's compassion. "The design of the whole psalm is to awaken the people to a lively consciousness of the truth, that though there is much of sin in us, there is much more of grace in God;" that" where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." Snggests- I. Goo LOVES ALL HIS CREATURES…
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PSALM LXXVII. PSALM LXXIX. The Temptation and the Refuge 112 "For the Glory of thy Name" 148 The Profound Mystery which sur- An Imprecatory Psalru HG rounds all Thoughts of God 112 "Brought very Low" 151) From Darkness to Dawu ... 114 The Heathen Taunt 150 God's Way in the Sanctuary 115 Times of Persecution 150 The My…
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TH.EHi!: PAGJ: TUEil& PAGE " The Lord shmll count " 226 The Right Nombering of our Days ... 260 The Divine Interest in Zion 227 'l'he Secret of Satisfaction . . . 261 What 011n be Hid for our Jerusalem? 227 "Make us Glad" .. . 2'12 Privileges or II Birtbploce . .. 228 God a Dwelling-place 262 Vru-ious Powers used in Go…
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TflEMB PAOB PSALM CII. Tho Lord's Victory 842 TRBKB PAOB The Lord's Memory 8-12 Affliction 372 Showing our Joy in God 848 God's Co.re for his People (Christ's Uni verso.I Su.I ve.tion 3-13 Care for his Church) 373 The Mortality of Man and the Eternity of God 371 PSALM XCIX. Light arising in Darkness... 37,-; " As a…
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