Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/3_600_e.lzh/3_681.TXT

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\*Ver. 6. \\And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as
the light\\, &c.] That is, the good man having committed
his cause to him that judgeth righteously, he
will, in his own time, clearly make it appear that it is
a righteous one, both to himself and others, in whatsoever
obscurity it may have lain;
\*\\and thy judgment as
the noon day\\; the same as before, unless rather the
righteousness of Christ, which is the believer's by imputation,
and is a justifying one in the judgment of
God, should be meant; see \\#Mic 7:9\\; and the
phrases may denote not barely the revelation of it in
the Gospel, but the more clear manifestation of it to
the believer himself, from faith to faith; or as it will
be still more clearly revealed and declared at the day
of judgment, when those who are clothed with it shall
shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father, and be
clear of all those charges and imputations which they
have lain under in this life.

\*Ver. 7. \\Rest in the Lord\\, &c.] Or %be silent to the
Lord% {p}; be still, and know that he is God; quietly submit
to his will, and acquiesce in all the dispensations
of his providence: it does not design a stupid indolence,
or a stoical apathy, that we should be like stocks
and stones, without any concern at the hand of God
upon us; nor an entire silence under afflictions; we
should own that they are of God, and that we are deserving
of them; we should pray to him to sanctify
them, to support under them, and deliver out of them;
we should bless his name that they are no worse, and
that they are any ways useful to us; and we should
speak to others of the divine goodness experienced
under them; but this stands opposed to an arraigning or
murmuring at the providence of God, and intends a
patient bearing the hand of God, and a resignation of
will to his will; for it follows,
\*\\and wait patiently for
him\\: for the enjoyment of him, help from him, and
deliverance by him;
\*\\fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of\\
\\the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass\\; this explains the sense
of \\#Ps 37:1\\; it being often an additional uneasiness to
the people of God under affliction, when they observe
the prosperity of men that go on in a sinful way,
and have all or more than heart can wish; and whatever
they contrive and devise, though wicked and criminal.

\*Ver. 8. \\Cease from anger\\, &c.] Either at these
wicked men who are so prosperous, or at God, who
for the present suffers it; see \\#Jon 4:9 Pr 19:3\\;
\*\\and forsake wrath\\; which is anger wrought up to a
greater degree; and the rather to be shunned and
avoided, as being very disagreeable to the character of
a good man;
\*\\fret not thyself in any wise to do evil\\;
evil may be done by fretting at the prosperity of wicked
men, or by imitating them, doing as they do, in hope
of being prosperous as they are; from which the
psalmist dissuades by reasons following.

\*Ver. 9. \\For evil doers shall be cut off\\, &c.] Though
they flourish for a while, they shall be cut down like
the grass or flower of the field, or they shall be cut off
as branches from a flourishing tree; they shall be cut
off from the earth, and rooted out of it by death or
some desolating judgment; see \\#Pr 2:22\\; and therefore
not to be envied and fretted at;
\*\\but those that
wait upon the Lord shall inherit the earth\\; such who attend
his word, worship, and ordinances; obey his commands,
trust in his grace and mercy; or, as the Targum,
%trust in the word of the Lord%; who wait upon
him for the manifestations of himself, for the performance
of his promises, for answer of prayer, for
supplies of grace, and live in the expectation of the
heavenly glory; these shall have for their inheritance,
not the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and
honey, which the obedient Jews enjoyed; but either
this world and the necessaries of it, which such persons
have the promise of, a right unto through Christ,
are heirs of, and do enjoy what they do with a blessing;
or else the new earth after this, in which only righteous
ones, those that wait upon the Lord, and trust in
him, will dwell; unless the heavenly country, the good
land afar off, is meant, often called an inheritance.

\*Ver. 10. \\For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall]
not [be]\\, &c.] Not that they shall be annihilated or reduced
to nothing, because nonentities have no place
nor being any where; when they die they shall lift up
their eyes in hell; their bodies will rise again at the
last day; they shall stand before the judgment seat of
Christ, and go into everlasting punishment; but they
shall be no more in the world, and in the same flourishing
and prosperous circumstances they were: and this
their destruction will be in a short time, very quickly;
\*\\yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be\\;
his dwelling place, called after his own name,
to perpetuate the memory of him; see \\#Job 7:10
20:9\\; an instance of this the psalmist gives of his own
knowledge, \\#Ps 37:35,36\\.

\*Ver. 11. \\But the meek shall inherit the earth\\, &c.]
\\See Gill on "Ps 37:9"\\; of this character \*\\see Gill on "Ps
22:26"\\. Our Lord seems to refer to this
passage in \\#Mt 5:5\\;
\*\\and shall delight themselves is
the abundance of peace\\; of spiritual peace enjoyed in a
way of believing, arising from a comfortable view of
interest in the blood, righteousness, and sacrifice of
Christ; and of all happiness and prosperity in the
kingdom of Christ here on earth, at which time there
will be abundance of peace, \\#Ps 72:7\\; or of eternal
peace in the world to come, which will be a state of
uninterrupted and unspeakable peace; see \\#Ps 37:37\\; all
which afford inconceivable delight and pleasure; and
therefore such have no need to fret and be envious at
the fading happiness of wicked men.

{p} \^hwhyl Mwd\^ %tace Domino%, Pagninus, Montanus; %sile%, Musculus,
Piscator, Tigurine version, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.