Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/3_500_e.lzh/3_562.TXT

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\*Ver. 14. \\That I may show forth all thy praise\\, &c.]
That is, all thy bounties and acts of goodness, deserving
of praise; even as many of them as he had an
experience of, and which came within his knowledge;
and as much of them as he was capable of observing:
for otherwise the instances of divine grace and goodness
are so many, that they cannot be reckoned up in
order, nor God be praised for them, in the present
state of things, as he should; \\see Gill on "Ps 9:1"\\;
\*\\in the gates of the daughter of Zion\\: it was usual with
the Hebrews to represent a chief city as a mother
city, and the towns and villages, and places adjacent,
as daughters; and so, as Zion or Jerusalem signifies
the church of God in general, or the mother church,
\\#Ga 4:26\\; so %the daughter% of Zion may mean a particular
church: the Targum renders it the congregation
of Zion; and %the gates% of it are the public ordinances
of divine worship in it; and the sense is, that the
psalmist desired to show forth the praises of God in
the most public manner in the congregation and assembly of the saints;
\*\\I will rejoice in thy salvation\\, or
%that I may rejoice in thy salvation% {m}: meaning either
temporal salvation and deliverance from enemies,
wrought by God for him, which would be matter of
joy to him; or spiritual salvation, which may be called
God's salvation, because contrived by him in the
council of peace, and secured by him in the covenant
of grace, and wrought out by his Son in the fulness of
time, and applied by his Spirit at conversion And a
gracious man rejoices in this salvation more because it
is the Lord's than because it is his own; or he rejoices
more because of the glory of God, which is displayed
in it, than because of his own advantage and
happiness by it.

\*Ver. 15. \\The Heathen are sunk into the pit [that] they
made\\, &c.] The psalmist having determined to praise
the Lord, and called upon others to join with him in
it, here enters upon it: for, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra
observe, this is \^hlht\^ %the praise% he was desirous to
show forth, which is occasioned by the destruction of
God's enemies, and the deliverance of his people: by
%the Heathen% are meant not the Philistines, as Kimchi
interprets it, who thought to cause Israel to fall, and
fell themselves; but this is spoken prophetically of the
nations of the earth, who have joined in the idolatry
of antichrist, the Gentiles, by whom the holy city
has been trodden under foot; even the several antichristian
states, that will be destroyed by the pouring
out of the seven vials, and especially the last, at the
battle of Armageddon; and which will be brought on
by themselves, with a design to destroy the whole
kingdom and interest of Christ, but will issue in their
utter ruin, which this phrase is expressive of; see \\#Re
18:3 11:2 16:18,14,16 19:19-21\\.
The metaphor is taken from hunters, who dig pits for
the wild beasts to fall into, that they may the more
easily take them, into which they fall themselves; see
\\#Ps 7:15\\. Wicked men are mischievous and
crafty, but sometimes they are taken in their own
craftiness;
\*\\in the net which they laid is their own; foot
taken\\; which may signify the same thing as before,
that the mischief they design for others falls upon
themselves; only as the former phrase denotes their
utter destruction like the sinking of a millstone in the
sea, by which the irrecoverable ruin of Babylon is expressed,
\\#Re 18:21\\; this may design the restraint
and hinderance of them from doing the evil they
would; their feet are entangled, that they cannot run
to shed blood; and their hands are held, that they
cannot perform their enterprise; and their wrath in
restrained and made to praise the Lord. The metaphor
is taken from fowlers, who lay nets and snares
for birds, and cover them that they may not be seen,
but fall into them unawares; see \\#Ps 124:7\\.

\*Ver. 16. \\The Lord is known by the judgment [which]
he executeth\\, &c.] The judgment which God will
execute upon antichrist, and the antichristian powers,
will be a means of making known his name, his glory,
his perfections, in all the earth; as his wisdom, power,
justice, and goodness; see \\#Ex 9:16 Ps 79:10 Re 15:3,4\\.
The destruction of antichrist will
be the Lord's doing, and it will bea righteous one; it
will be a just retaliation; as he has killed with the
sword, multitudes of his followers shall be killed with
the sword; as he has led captive, he shall be taken
captive at the battle of Armageddon; as he has burnt,
many of the martyrs of Jesus, he shall be cast into the
lake of fire burning with brimstone. Some read these
words as two sentences, %The Lord is known; he hath
executed judgment% {n}: the latter of these refers not to
the ministration of justice in the providential government
of the world, or at the last day in the general
judgment; but to the judgment of the great whore, or
antichrist, at which time the Lord will be known in
his Gospel in all the world; the earth will be tilled
with the knowledge of him, and he, and he alone, will
be exalted; his name will be great and glorious
throughout the earth; all shall know him, from the
least to the greatest; and their knowledge of him will
be very clear and comprehensive. %The wicked is snared
in the work of his own hands%, \\#Pr 12:13\\; not Goliath, as Kimchi
thinks, who was slain by David with his own sword,
though this was true of him in the letter and type;
but the wicked one, the man of sin and son of perdition,
antichrist, whose coming is after the working
of Satan, with all craftiness and wily stratagems,
called the depths of Satan, \\#Re 2:24\\; but his own
sins shall take him, and he shall be holden with the
cords of his iniquities, and be rewarded double for all
his sins; what is before figuratively expressed is here
literally declared; or, %he hath snared the wicked in or
by the work of his hands% {o}, that is, God.
\*\\Higgaion. Selah\\; of the latter of these words,
\*\\see Gill on "Ps 3:2"\\; the former
signifies %meditation%; Jarchi
paraphrases it \^hghn\^, %let us meditate on this, selah%; Aben
Ezra interprets it, %I will show forth this in truth%; the
Chaldee paraphrase is, %the righteous shall rejoice
for ever%; the note of Kimchi and Ben Melech is, %this
salvation is to us meditation and praise%; upon the whole
the sense seems to be this, that God's judgments upon
antichrist, and the antichristian states, and the deliverance
of his people from their yoke and tyranny, are
things worthy of the meditation of the saints, and
afford just matter of joy, praise, and thanksgiving.

{m} \^hlyga\^ %exultem%, Junius & Tremellius, Musculus; %ut exultem%,
Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis; %gaudeam%, Cocceius; so Ainsworth.
{n} \^hve jpvm hwhy edwn\^ %notus est Dominus; judicium fecit%,
Pagninus, Montanus, Gussetius; so Vatablus, Musculus, Cocceius, Gejerus,
Michaelis, and Ainsworth.
{o} \^evr vqwn wypk lepb\^ %illaqueavit iniquum per opus (vel in opere)
manunm ipsius%, Gussetius.