Notes, Chiefly Critical and Philological, on the Hebrew Psalms Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...upon the cherubim; let the earth be moved. For the idea of riding upon the cherubim see Ps. xviii. 11. For the same expression as in the text see Ps. Ixxx. 2. The intention ia plainly to express God's going forth to overcome the obstinacy of the world. The earth's stability has seemed to symbolize this obstinacy. See notes upon Ps. xciii. 1, and Ps. xcvi. 10. v. 4. And the King's power lovelh judgment. The King is certainly Jehovah, whose reign of majesty and justice is the subject of the Psalm. To say that His power or majesty loves judgment is much the same as to say that which is often elsewhere asserted, viz. that Jehovah loves judgment. The expression is amplified in the text as if to indicate that His kingly power is exercised, not like that of earthly kings, in tyranny, but in equity. And this is the reason why the peoples are represented, in v. 3, as praising God's great and terrible name; because His greatness and His terror are manifested in behalf of righteousness. The manifestation, indeed, was made primarily in and for Israel; but its intention to the whole world is here proclaimed. God who is great in Zion is also exalted over all peoples, in v. 2. In this 4th verse, the foundations of that kingdom of righteousness which is 1o prevail throughout the world have been laid in Jacob. y. 6. Of those men through whom God's manifestations of Himself were made to Israel, the Psalmist names Moses aiid Aaron, as priests, and Samuel as prevailing in prayer. There is perhaps some allusion to the meaning of the name Samuel, viz. heard of God. v. 7. He spake unto them in a pillar oj cloud. That this is true of Moses and Aaron, but not of Samuel, is a very inconsiderable matter. The statement concerns all Tsrael at the time of giving the...