Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/3_500_e.lzh/3_569.TXT

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\*Ver. 16. \\The Lord [is] King for ever and ever\\, &c.]
Christ was King from everlasting, and during the Old
Testament dispensation he was promised and prophesied
of as King; and he had a kingdom when he was
here on earth, though not of this world; nor was it
with observation. At his ascension to heaven, and
session at the right hand of God, he sat down upon
the same throne with his father, and was made or declared
Lord and Christ, and appeared more visibly in
his kingly office; and in the latter day it will be yet
more manifest that he is King of saints, and when indeed
he will be King over all the earth, and his kingdom
will be an everlasting one: he will have no successor
in it, nor will any usurper obtain any more;
the devil, beast, and false prophet, will be cast into
the lake of fire; all antichristian states will be destroyed,
and all authority, rule, and power, put down;
nor can his kingdom ever be subverted, he must reign
till all enemies are put under his feet; he will reign to
the end of the present world, and with the saints a
thousand years in the new heaven and earth, and in
the ultimate glory to all eternity; nor will his
government cease when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
to the father, only the mode of the administration
of it. Here begins the song of praise; the reign
of Christ is matter of joy; see \\#Ps 97:1 Isa 52:7\\;
\*\\the Heathen are perished out of his land\\: not the seven
nations which were driven out of the land of Canaan,
to make way for the people of Israel, that was long
ago; nor the wicked and degenerate Jews, called the
Heathen, \\#Ps 2:1\\; compared with \\#Ac 4:27\\; on
whom, and on whose temple, city, and nation, Christ's
native land, wrath is come to the uttermost; and they
are perished out of it: nor hypocrites out of churches,
which are Christ's property; but the antichristian
party out of the world, which is Christ's land by creation,
as God, and by the gift of his father to him, as
Mediator. The followers of antichrist are called
Gentiles, and the nations of the earth, \\#Re 11:2,18 18:2\\;
and these will be no more; they will be
utterly destroyed, when the man of sin shall be consumed
with the breath of Christ's mouth and the
brightness of his coming. The seventh vial will clear
the world of all the remains of Christ's enemies: this
also is cause of rejoicing, \\#Ps 132:16-18 Re 18:22\\.

\*Ver. 17. \\Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble\\,
&c.] See \\#Ps 10:12 Ps 9:12\\; for the coming of
Christ's kingdom, and that the kingdoms of this world

may become his; for the destruction of antichrist, and
for the avenging the blood of the saints. The prayers
of God's people sometimes lie in inward and secret
desires of the soul, and are not expressed in words;
and these desires are all before the Lord, and are well
known unto him; yea, such prayers of the heart, and
which come from it, are principally regarded by him;
they being his own preparation, as is suggested in the
next clause, and the breathings of his spirit; and
especially the desires of humble souls are regarded,
whose prayers he never despises, nor sends them away
empty, but fills with his good things;
\*\\thou wilt prepare their heart\\; for prayer, by pouring a spirit of
grace and supplication on them, impressing their minds
with a sense of things to be prayed for, and drawing
out the desires of their souls unto them, and making
intercession for them with groanings according to the
will of God, and so helping their infirmities; and it is
God's work to prepare the heart for prayer, as well as
to put words into the mouth, \\#Pr 16:1\\; or %thou wilt
direct their heart% {n}; to the object of prayer, himself,
and to the things to be prayed for, for they know not
what to pray for, nor how as they should; and to
what may encourage to it, as the love of God, the
covenant of grace, the person, blood, and righteousness
of Christ: or %confirm% or %establish their heart% {o};
strengthen and fix them, that they be not wavering
and doubtful, but certain and assured of success, believing
that their desires will be fulfilled in God's own
time;
\*\\thou wilt cause thine ear to hear\\; God has an
ear to hear the prayers of his people, nor is his ear
heavy that it cannot hear; his ears are open to the
cries of righteous ones; nor will he ever turn a deaf
ear to them, but will give an answer in his own time
and way; which is an instance of his sovereign grace
and goodness. These words express the faith of the
psalmist in God being a God hearing and answering
prayer, particularly in things relating to the ruin of
antichrist and his followers, and to the kingdom and
glory of his son Jesus Christ.

\*Ver. 18. \\To judge the fatherless and the oppressed\\,
&c.] That is, God will cause his ear to hear the
cries of his people, so as to avenge the wrongs done
to the fatherless, and them that are oppressed by the
man of sin; see \\#Re 11:18 18:20 19:2\\;
\*\\that the man of the earth may no more oppress\\: or
%terrify% {p}, the dear children of God, and faithful witnesses
of Christ, as he has done; for by %the man of
the earth% is not meant carnal worldly men in general,
%the wicked of the earth%, as the Targum renders it; who
are so called because their original is from the earth,
and they dwell in earthly tabernacles, and shall return
to the earth again, and are earthly-minded men,
and have much of this world's things; and are therefore
sometimes called the men and children of this
world, and who, generally speaking, are oppressors
of the saints; and who shall cease to be so in the latter
day, when the kingdom shall be given to the saints of
the most High; but particularly the man of sin, the
Romish antichrist, seems intended, who is the beast
that is risen up out of the earth, \\#Re 13:11\\; and so
the words may be rendered here, %the man out of the
earth% {q}; whose kingdom and government is an earthly
one, and is supported by the kings of the earth, and
with earthly power and grandeur, and with earthly
views and worldly ends: he has been the great oppressor
and terrifier of the poor people of God; but when
Christ comes to avenge them on him, he will no more
oppress, he will be taken and cast alive into the lake
of fire; see \\#Re 13:10 19:20\\. The words
may be rendered according to the accents thus, %to
judge the fatherless and the oppressed; he shall not add
any more%: for there is all %athnach% which makes a proposition
under \^dwe\^, %any more%: and the sense is, God shall
so thoroughly avenge the injuries of the fatherless and
the oppressed, that there will be no need to add thereunto
or repeat the vengeance, it will be an utter destruction;
and then follows another distinct end of causing
his ear to hear, namely, %to shake terribly the man of the
earth%, or %to shake terribly man from off the earth% {r}, the
man of sin, as before; see \\#Isa 2:19, 21\\; or, as Jarchi
interprets the words, %to beat and break in pieces%; that
is, antichrist and his kingdom; so Montanus.

{n} \^Mbl Nykt\^ %dirigis%, Vatablus; %diriges%, Tigurine version.
{o} %Confirmas%, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis; %confirmes%, Cocceius;
%confirma%, Junius & Tremellius.
{p} \^Uwrel\^ %perterrefacere%, Piscator; %terrere%, Musculus, Vatablus; so
Ainsworth.
{q} \^Urah Nm vwna\^ %homines de terra%, Pagninus, Montanus.
{r} So Jarchi from Aben Ezra.