TREASURY OF DAVID
PSALM 52
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Psalms 52:1 (PSALMS)
PSALM 52
Title. To the Chief Musician. Even short Psalms, if they record but one instance of the goodness of the Lord, and rebuke but briefly the pride of man, are worthy of our best minstrelsy. When we e that each Psalm is dedicated to "the chief musician, "it should make us value our psalmody, and forbid us to prai the Lord carelessly. Maschil. An Instructive. Even the malice of a Doeg may furnish instruction to a David. A Psalm of David.reason的用法 He was the prime object of Doeg's doggish hatred, and therefore the most fitting person to draw from the incident the lesson concealed within it. When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and saith unto him, David is come to the hou of Ahimelech. By this deceitful tal
e bearing, he procured the death of all the priests at Nob: though it had been a crime to have succoured David as a rebel, they were not in their intent and knowledge guilty of the fault. David felt much the villany of this arch enemy, and here he denounces him in vigorous terms; it may be also that he has Saul in his eye.
Division. We shall follow the sacred paus marked by the Selahs of the poet.
EXPOSITION
Ver. 1. Why boasteth thylf in mischief, O mighty man?男子的英文名 Doeg had small matter for boasting in having procured the slaughter of a band of defenceless priests. A mighty man indeed to kill men who never touched a sword! He ought to have been ashamed of his cowardice. He had no room for exultation! Honourable titles are but irony where the wearer is mean and cruel. If David alluded to Saul, he meant by the words pityingly to say, "How can one by nature fitted for nobler deeds, descend to so low a level as to find a theme for boasting in a slaughter so heartless and mischievous?" The goodness of God endureth continually. A beautiful contrast. The tyrant's fury cannot dry up the perennial str
eam of divine mercy. If priests be slain their Master lives. If Doeg for awhile triumphs the Lord will outlive him, and right the wrongs which he has done. This ought to modify the proud exultations of the wicked, for after all, while the Lord liveth, iniquity has little cau to exalt itlf.
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS
Title. That Maschil means a sacred composition, is evident from Ps 47:7, where the passage which we render, "Sing ye prais with understanding, "is literally, "Sing ye a 海贼王日语Maschil, "or song of instruction. This word occurs as a title in thirteen places; and six times is prefixed to compositions of David's. In veral instances it occurs in concutive Psalms; i.e., in the 42nd (of which the 43rd is the quel), the 44th and 45th, the 52nd, 53rd, 54th, and 55th, the 88th and 89th. A circumstance which favours the notion that the term was one peculiarly ud by some particular editor or collector of a certain portion of the Psalter. John Jebb.
Ver. 1. (lacewoodfirst clau). Why doth he glory in malice that is mighty? that is, he that in malice i
s mighty, why doth he glory? There is need that a man be mighty, but in goodness, not in malice. Is it any great thing to glory in malice? To build a hou belong to few men, any ignorant man you plea can pull down. To sow wheat, to dress the crop, to wait until it ripen, and in that fruit on which one has laboured to rejoice, doth belong to few men: with one spark any man you plea can burn all
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What art thou about to do, O, mighty man, what are thou about to do, boasting thylf much? Thou art about to kill a man: this thing also a scorpion, this also a fever, this also a poisonous fungus can do. To this is thy mightiness reduced, that it be made equal to a poisonous fungus! Augustine.
Ver. 1. By mischief is understood not simply what evil he had done, but the prosperity which he now enjoyed, obtained through mischief; as is clear both from the word boasting and from the Formerly he was the chief of Saul's shepherds 1Sa 21:8, but by that wicked destruction of the priests of God by Saul, and the execution of the cruel ntence, he obtained the chief place near to the king 1Sa 22:9. Hermann Venema.
Ver. 1. O mighty man. The words may be added by way of irony, as if he had said, A great deal of valour and prowess you have shown in slaying a company of unarmed men, the priests of the Lord, yea, women and children, no way able to resist you or el to imply the ground of his vain boasting, to wit, either his prent greatness, as being a man in great place, and of great power with Saul; or the great preferments he expected from Saul. Arthur Jackson.
Ver. 1. The goodness of God endureth continually. He contrasts the goodness of God with the wealth and might of Doeg, and the foundation of his own confidence as widely different from that of Doeg, his own placed upon the goodness of God, enduring for ever and showing itlf effectual. It is as if he had said, The goodness of God to which I trust, is most powerful and the same throughout all time, and in it I shall at all times most surely rejoice that goodnesskeepquiet of God, since now it sustains me, so it will exalt me in its own good time; it therefore is, and will be above me. ...
Not without emphasis does he say the goodness la of the 河北高考录取结果查询strong God, a contrast to Doeg the hero, and the ruinous foundation of his fortune. Hermann Venema.
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Ver. 1. The confidence of faith.
