Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/4_000_t.lzh/4_060.TXT

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ing: and he is a shield to protect them from all their
enemies; he is the shield of faith, or which faith makes
use of, against the temptations of Satan; he is the
shield of salvation, and his salvation is a shield which
shelters from divine justice, and secures from wrath to
come: the Lord will give grace and glory : he gives con-
verting grace, the first grace, and all after-supplies of
it; he gives sanctifying grace, all sorts of it, faith,
hope, love, and every other; he gives justifying, par-
doning, adopting, and persevering grace, and all freely;
he gives honour and glory among men, fellow-crea-
tures, and fellow-Christians; and he gives eternal glory,
the glory his Father gave him, the crown of glory,
life, and righteousness: this is the gift of God through
Christ; Christ gives a right unto it, meethess for it,
and the-thing itself; and in his house and ordinances,
as he gives more grace to the htamble waiters upon
him, so he encourages and increases their hope of
glory; and he that gives the one will certainly give the
other; for these two are inseparably connected toge-
ther, so that he that has the one shall enjoy the other:
no good thing will he withhold from them that walk
uprightly; that walk by faith, and on in Christ, as
they have received him; who have their conversation
according to the Gospel of Christ, and walk in the

uprightness and sincerity of their hearts; from such
the Lord will not withhold any good thing he has pur-
posed for them, promised to them, or laid up for them
in covenant; no spiritual good thing appertaining to
life and godliness, and no temporal blessing that is
good for them; he'll deny them no good thing they ask
of him, not any thing that is good for them; and he'll.
not draw back any good things he has bestowed on
them, his gifts are without repentance.
Ver. 12. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that
trusteth in thee, &c.] For grace and glory, and every
good thing; that trusts in the Lord at all times, and
not in the creature, or in an arm of flesh; but in the
Lord of hosts and armies, in whom is everlasting
strength, and is the sun and shield of his people:
happy are such that trust in him, whether they have
ability or opportunity of going up to the house of the
Lord, or not; they are happy that have and make use
thereof, and so are they that trust in the Lord, whe-
ther they have or no; they are safe, being as Mount
Zion, which can never be removed; and do and shall
enjoy perfect peace and solid comfort here, and eternal
happiness hereafter; see Jer. xvii. 5, 7. Isa. xxvi. 3, 4.
The Targum is," blessed is. the man that trusteth in
"thy Word ;" in Christ, the essential Word.

the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

This psalm is generally thought to have been com-
posed after the return of the Jews from their captivity
in Babylon; and yet when they were in some distress
from their neighbours, either in the times of Ezra
and N'ehemiah, or in the times of Antiochus; but
then this deliverance from captivity must be consi-
dered as typical of redemption by Christ; for as the
title of the Syriac version is," it is a prophecy con-
" cerning Christ;" it speaks of his dwelling in the
land, of his salvation being near, and of the glory of
the divine perfections as displayed in it; and perhaps
some parts of it may respect the conversion of the
Jews in the latter day; and Aben Ezra and Kimchi
say, it is concerning the captivity of Babylon, yet also
of their present captivity.
Ver. 1. Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land,
&c.] The land of Canaan, which the Lord chose for
the people of Israel, and put them into the possession
of it; and where he himself chose to dwell, and had
a sanctuary built for him; and therefore though the
whole earth is his, yet this was his land and inherit-
ance in a peculiar manner, as it is called, Jer. xvi. 18.
the inhabitants of it are meant, to whom the Lord was
favourable, or whom he graciously accepted, and was
well-pleased with and delighted in, as appears by his
shoosing them above all people to be his people; by
bringing them out of Egyptian bondage, by leading
them through the Red sea and wilderness, by feeding
and protecting them there; and by bringing them
into the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk
and honey, and settling them in it; and by many

temporal blessings, and also spiritual ones, as his
word and ordinances; but especially by sending his
own Son, the Messiah and Saviour, unto them; and
which perhaps is what is here principally intended:
thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob; or,
the captives {m} of Jacob; in a temporal sense, both
out of Egypt, and out of Babylon; and in a spiritual
sense from sin, Satan, and the law; the special people
of God often go by the name of Jacob, and these are
captives to the above mentioned; and redemption by
Christ is a deliverance of them from their captivity, or
a bringing of it back, for he has led captivity captive;
and in consequence of this they are put into a state of
freedom, liberty is proclaimed to these captives, and
they are delivered, and all as the fruit and effect of
divine favour.
Vet. 2. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people,
&c.] Took it from them, and laid it on Christ, who
has bore it, and took it away, so as it shall never return
more to their destruction; and by the application of
his blood it is taken away from their own consciences;
for this denotes the manifestation and discovery of for-
giveness to themselves; it is a branch of redemption,
and is in consequence of it; and is a fruit of the free
favour and good will of God through Christ; and it
only belongs to the Lord's special people, the people
he has taken into covenant with him, and for whose
iniquity Christ was stricken: thou hast covered all their
sin. Selah; this is but another phrase for forgiveness,
see Psal. xxxii. 1. and this is done by the blood and
righteousness, and propitiatory sacrifice of Christ, the

{m} \^twbv\^ captivam turbam, Junius & Tremellius; i. e. captivos, Gejerus, Michaelis.