The Pulpit Commentary — Psalms — Volume 1 — Section 18

Diocletia.n, Julia.n the Aposte.to, etc. There diepleasure; or, "in the heat of his anaer" 0 is e.lwa.ys o. wo.rfa.re between the world and (Trench and Skinner). the Church, in which kings o.re apt to te.ke Ver. 6.-Yet have I set my King upon my n part, most often on the worldly side. And holy hill of Zion; literally, anrl as for me, the rulora take 0011I1sel together. "Rulers" I lmDe set my King upon Zion, the mount of o.re persons ho.ving 11,nthority, but below my holiness. The wor<liJ are nttere<l by the rank of kings. Buch were the ethne.rchs Jehovah, and must refer to the Anointed a.nd tetre.rchs of the first century, the go- One of ver. 2. This Anointed One God has vernors of provinces under the Roma.n em- set up o.s King upon Zion, his holy moun- peror, the members of the Jewish So.nhcdrin, tain. Without denyin.,. some reference to and the like. These le.et frequently "took David, the type, we m~at regard the Anti- counsel e,go.inst the Lord" (see Me,tt. xxvi. type, Christ, a.a mainly pointed at. Christ 3-5; xxvii. 1; Acts iv. 5, 6; v. 21-41). is set np for ever as King in the heavenly Agaj.nst the Lord, and age.inst hh Anointed, Jerusalem (Rev. xxi. 2-7; xxii. 1-5). saying. In Do.vid's time the recognized There is no need to substitute "anointed" "e,nointed of the Lord" we.3 the divinely for "set" or " B8t up," as is <lone by Rosen- appointed King of Israel (1 Sam. ii. 10; wiiller, Gesonins, Ewald, Znnz, Umbreit, xii. 3, 5; xvi. 6; xxiv. 6, 10; xxvi. 7, 16; o.nd others, since lDl has both meanings 2 Sam. i. 14, 16; xix. 21; xxii. 51; Pss. (co:np. Prov. viii. 23). :xviii. 50; xx. 6 ; xxviii. B)-first Saul, nnd Ver. 7.-I will deolare the decree. It is then David; but David here seems to desig- best to suppose that Messiah here takes the nate by the term a Gre:itcr than himself- word, and maintains it to the end of ver. 9, the true theocratic King, whom he typified. when the p3almist resumes in his own per- Ver. 3.-Let us break their bands e,s11I1der. son. Messiah "declares," or publishes, 11 Wicked men always feel God's rule o.nd "<lecree," me,de by God the Father iu tile his Law to be restraints. They chafe at beginning of o.11 things, and communicated them, fret age,inet them, and, iu the lt\st by him to the Son, whereby he made known resort-so fe.r as tlloir will goes-wholly the relatiolllihip between them, and investe,l throw tllem off. And ce.st e.we.y their cords the Son with sovereign power over the uni- from us. "Bands" nnd "cords" are tho verse. The Lord bath said unto me; mther, fetters tha.t restra.in prisoners. 'fhe rebels said unto me (see tbe ReviseJ Version). It dctermino to burst them, nnd assert their wo.s said, once for nll, at o. distant elate. o.bsolnte froedom. Thou o.rt my Son. Not "one of my sona," Ver. 4.-He the.t sitteth in the heavens bnt "my Son; " i.e. my one Son, my only shall laugh. God "laughs" o.t the vo.in one-" my Snn" Ka.T' lfox~v (comp. Ps. aud futile efforts of man to esco.pe from the lxxxix. 27; lieb. i. 5). This day have I control of his lo.wa and throw off his begotten thee. If it be asked, •• Which dominion (comp. Pas. xxxvii. 13; lix. 8). day?" the answer wonld seem to be, tbo It is impossible that these effol'ts should day when O1.irist commenced his redemptive succeed. Men must oboy God willingly, or work: then the Father "committecl all elao unwillingly. The Lord (Adonay in judgment "-all dominion over creation- tho ordino.ry Hebrew toxt, but a lllrge " to the Son" (John v. 22), gave him, ns it number of manuscripts hl\Va Jehovah) were, R new existence, R new sphere, tile shl\ll have them in derision. "Lau;hter" throne of the worlil, and of o.11 that is or o.nd " derision" a.re, of course, o.ntllropo- that ever will be, in it (see 'Spco.ker's Com- mol'phisms. It is meant thnt God views monta.ry,' ad loc.). witl1 contempt and scorn wo.n's weo.k Ver. 8.-Ask of me, and I she.11 giva thaa attrmpts o.t r_cbellion. the bee.then for thine inheritance. A ,;el'y Ver. 5.-Then shall ha speak unto them smull part of tile heathen were tile iuhcri- in his wro.th. "Thau" (11;t) meo.ns " o.fler tnnco of David, nnd therefore the l\Icssiah o. timo "-"presently" (' Speaker's Com- only can be spoken of in this verso. Bcfuro mcnta.ry '), when tho fitting period ha.s l\Icssia.h " o.ll kings" wcro to " fall down ; nni vod. "lie sho.11 speak" -not in 1uticu- all nations to do him scrvico" (Ps. lxxii. luto words, not by ::t voice from henven, nut 11; comp. Ian. xlix. 22; Ix. 3, 1; llfott. oven by o. commissioned messenger, but by xxviii. 19, eto.). Aud the uttarmost parts nccomplishod fa.cts. Chdst dooo rule; Christ of the earth for thy possossion (comp. lsa. doos reign ; he sits o. King iu heo.von, and Iii. 10; Jcr. xvi. 19; ~licall v. 4; Zech. ix. is ncknowledgcd as o. King upon eo.rtb. In 10; Acts xiii. 47). vain was all the opposition of the Jews, Vor. 9.-Thou shalt break them with a in vuin persecution a.fler persecution by the rod of iron. It is so.id that thcso words, uni! Gcutiles. God ho.a csto.blished his Church, those of the next cl,rnse, "co.nnot describo and "tho go.tes of hell slmll not prevnil the mild rule of Christ" (Rosenmilllcr, Do nguinst it." And vex thom. "Strike torror Wctte, I-Iupfcl<l, etc.). ll1,l the objoctor,i cm,! dismay into thow" (Kny). In his soro furgot tllut thcro io 11 severe, n, well o., 11 12 TRE BOOR OF PSALMS. [rs. n. 1-12.