Verse 10. Christian finance; voluntary but abundant are the gifts presented to Jesus.
Verse 12. Christ's peculiar care of the poor.
Verse 12.
1. Pitiable characters.
2. Abject conditions: "cry; ""no helper."
3. Natural resort: "crieth."
4. Glorious interposition. G. Rogers.
Verse 14. The martyr's hope in life and comfort in death. G. Rogers.
Verse 14 (last clause) . The martyr's blood.
1. Seen of God when shed.
2. Remembered by him.
3. Honoured by being a benefit to the church.
4. Rewarded especially in heaven.
Verse 15. Prayer shall be made for him. We are to pray for Jesus Christ. Owing to the interest he has in certain objects, what is done for them is done for himself and so he esteems it. We, therefore, pray for him when we pray for his ministers, his ordinances, his gospel, his church—in a word, his cause. But what should we pray for on his behalf?
1. The degree of its resources; that there be always a sufficiency of suitable and able instruments to carry on the work.
2. The freedom of its administration; that whatever opposes or hinders its progress may be removed.
3. The diffusion of its principles; that they may become general and universal.
4. The increase of its glory, as well as its extent. W. Jay.
Verse 15. Prayer for Jesus, a suggestive topic. Daily praise, a Christian duty.
Verse 15. A living Saviour, a giving people; the connection between the two. Or, Christ in the church fills the exchequer, fosters the prayer meeting, and sanctifies the service of song.
Verse 16.
1. A happy description of the gospel: it is a handful of corn.
2. The places where it is sown.
3. The blessed effects which this gospel, when thus sown, will produce in the world. J. Sherman.
Verse 16.
1. Commencement.
2. Publicity.
3. Growth.
4. Result.
Verse 16.
1. What? Corn.
2. How much? A handful.
3. Where? In the earth upon the top of the mountains.
4. Will it grow? The fruits, etc.
5. What then? They of the city, etc.
Verse 17.
1. Christ glorified in the Church: men shall be blessed, etc.
2. Glorified in the world: all nations, etc.
3. Glorified in worlds to come: endure, be continued, etc.
4. Glorified for ever. G. Rogers.
Verses 17-19. The Four Blesseds, their meaning and order.
Verse 20.
1. Prayer should be frequent: The prayers.
2. Should be individual: Of David.
3. Should be early commenced: the son of Jesse.
4. Should be continued till they are no more needed.
HERE ENDETH THE SECOND BOOK OF THE PSALMS.
WORK UPON THE SEVENTY-SECOND PSALM
In CHANDLER'S Life of David, Vol. 2, pp. 440-44, there is an Exposition of this Psalm.