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The Pulpit Commentary — Psalms — Volume 3
George Rawlinson [1812-1902] · 356,243 words · 377 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Psalms — Volume 3 — Section 361
ground, when they immediately strike root and form independent grasses, This is a remarkable adaptation to circumstances; for it is mar.ifest that were seeds, instead of living plants, developed in the ears of the mountain grasses, they would be useless in the stormy region where they grow. They would be blown away, fa…
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Vers. 1-11.-God worthy of praue. "A. fresh burst of praise because of God's Fatherly care, as shown in his provision for the wants of the cattle and the fowls of the air. And as he feeds the ravens, which have neither storehouse nor barn, but only cry to him for their food, so amongst men his delight is not in those…
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wind; hence he o.gnin comes back t.J solid· mnde a decree which shall net pass; rnthcr, earth-mountains, hills, trees, beaste, creep- which shall not pass away (eee the Revised ing things, and flying fowl (vers. 7-10). Version; and comp Gen. viii. 22; Jer. xxxi. 35, 3G; xxxiii. 25). Lastly, the discourse touches on ma…
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HOMILETICS. Vers.1-14.-The tnoute of creation. The psalmist writes in a v~ry jubilant strain; his mood is that of exultation. The sunshine of prosperity is on his path, and con- sequently the spirit of sacred joy is in his heart, and words of praise upon his lips. He call~ upon the whole universe to pay its tribute…
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Ver. 6.-Tl1e permanence of 11atural law. "He hath also stnblished them for ever and over." 'l'he permanence of natural law is not really any scientific discovery of modern date, It is the commonplace of thoughtful apprehension of facts in nil ages. It is the basis of confidence on which man's enterprises have always re…
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rises to God, be hears the thrilling tones o: those who were maue in hi3 image an rl redeemed by his grace. III. MAN FINDS VOICE FOR NATURE, And so puts intelligence, character, tone, heart, into it. As some exquisite solo that seems to carry to our sonla all the body of orchestral sound, so man-redeemed man-finds …
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anticipations of future vengeance, through God thanks for it. Let them sing a.loud God's help, on heathen enemies that o.re upon their beds. Not, as in former do.ye, weeping through the long night (Pas. vi. 6; still bent on persecuting God's "loving lxxvii. 2-6), and watering their couches ones." The tone is that o…
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HOMILETICS. Vers.1-9.-God's pleasure in us, and owrs in Mm. The more particularly inviting passage is found in the fourth verse; but those before and after are also suggestive. 'l'aking them first, and that last, we have- I. THE 0ONBTANOY OF O00ABION FOR PRAISING GOD. (Ver. 1.) The "new song" of the psalmist is surel…
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Ver. 2.-The Makr,r of nations. The expression seems to refer rather to the selection and constitution of Israel us the people of Jehovah than to the act of creation. By the restoration from Babylon, Israel bad been appropriated anew in this special character; made or constituted a nation. It ,ms in the restored and …
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Ver. 6.-Song and strolce. "Let the high praises of Goll be in their mouth, and a two-edged sworJ in their hancl." "The a~o when such a psalm was most likely to be produced was undoubtedly that of the Maccabees, nnd the coincidence between this verse and 2 Mace. xv. 27 may indicato the very series of events amid which, …
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 2.-Praise him for his mighty aots; PSALM OL. l.e. for the great acts of his providence, Oolllll!ENTATORS generally o.re agreed that especially for his deliverances of Israel. this is a most noble pso.lm, a, fit conclusion Praise him aocording to his exoelle:it great- to the noble coffec.tionwhich her…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. . Ver. L~P~_ to praise f!od_ in. "This ps~lm is a rapture. The poet-prophet 1s full of msp1:at101; aud entuns1~sm." Larnar~rne says, "In this closing psalm we see the almost rnart1culate enthusiasm of the lync poet; so rapidly do the words press to his lips, floating upwards towarcls God, t…
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Vers. 3, 4.-lnstruments to praise God with. Bishop Wordsworth notes th'\t all kinds of faculty are engaged in the work of praise. The breath is employed in blowing the trumpet; the fingers are used in striking the strings of the psaltery and the harp; the whole hand is exerted in beating the timbrel; the feet move in t…
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r.AGS PSALM CXV. Meat girnn to them that fear the THBl(B l'.lGB Lord ... 38 True and False Worship ... 62 The Duty of Witnessing in Public for God's Practico.l Kindness, Past and God 39 Future 63 Good Will towards God guiding the The Heathen Taunt, and what came Search for God ... 39 of it ... 6i The Excellency of t…
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Experience can teach 155 "My Hope" 177 Whe.t is e. Perfect Hee.rt? ... 156 A Great Sorrow 178 The Wine-skin in the Smoke 156 Leaving our Enemies with God 157 PSALM OXX, Divine Quickening our Supreme Need 157 The Supreme Strain of .Affliction 158 The Perversion of Power, eto. 179 The Disappointment of Hume.n Hopes 158 …
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TRRVR PA.GR TRBl!B PAGB On Knowing our Spheres 256 The Divine Repentances 284 Restraint of Natural Ambiti<'n9 25G Unrespousible Idols 281: Man's Personnl Experience m~y be God's Earthly Dwelling-plnco 285 the Basis of his Hope in Gou 257 God's Praises 285 Humility 258 PSALM CXXXVI. PSALl\I CXXXII. The Divine Constan…
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!l'HEIIR PA.OR The Pleasantness of Praise ... 402 Our Response to God 372 God's Help for the Suffering Ones 408 The Greatn<'ss of God 373 The Lord's Waye with the Meek ,., 408 The Goodness of God 373 God's C11re of the Mountain Grasses 404 The Te Deum of the Old Test.ament ::: 374 The Lessons of the Winter 405 The Char…
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