jrreater than Solomon is here : and it is the Messiah's kingdom to which David ultimately refers, and which alone fully corresponds with the description here given of it.
In our further elucidation of this truth, we shall consider,
I. The " wondrous things" here referred to —
These are particularly specified throughout the psalm. We notice,
1 . The nature of the Redeemer's kingdom —
[It is truly a kingdom of rigliteousness and peace '\ In it no law exists which does not tend to promote the best interests of him that obeys it, and of all connected with him. Nor are the laws recorded merely in books that are inaccessible to the great mass of the people : they are inscribed on the very hearts of the people themselves ; to whom a disposition is given to love and obey them : so that every subject of the empire is made both holy and happy : and of every obedient subject the King himself espouses the cause; so that, how numerous or powerful soever his enemies may be, they shall all be subdued before Jiim, and the great leader of them all be bruised under his feet ^.]
2. The extent of it—
[Solomon's kingdom extended over the whole of that country which had originally been promised to Aln-aham : but the Messiah's shall embrace the whole earth : " All kings shall fall down before him ; all nations shall serve him '^." " From the rising of the sun to the going down thereof his name shall be great among the Gentiles'': " he shall have "the utmost ends of the earth for his possession ^ ; " and " all the kingdoms of the world become his " undivided empire *^.]
3. The means by which it shall be established —
[It was by the effusion of blood that David subdued his enemies, and conquered for his son that vast dominion : but it is not by carnal weapons that the Redeemer extends his empire. The word of God is that sword whereby he "subdues the nations to the obedience of faith." The preachers of it go forth without any human aid, like sowers to sow their seed: and it is by " an handful of corn cast by them on the tops of the mountains," that the vast field is cultivated : so
^ ver. 7. ^ ver. 4. •= ver. 11.
•^Mal. i. 11. e Ps. it. 8. fRev. xi. 15.
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