Bible Heaven/Bible Heaven.iso/spurgeon/ps18.18

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                           EXPOSITION.

        It was an ill day, a day of _calamity_, of which evil
foes took cruel advantage while they used crafty means utterly to
ruin him, yet David could say, "_but the Lord is my stay_." What
a blessed _but_ which cuts the Gordian knot, and slays the
hundred-headed hydra! There is no fear of deliverance when our
stay is in Jehovah.

              EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.

        Verse 18.--"_They prevented me in the day of my
calamity_;" i.e., came on me suddenly unawares, when I was
unprovided and helpless, and must have destroyed me had not God
upheld and supported me when I was in danger of perishing. God
was to the Psalmist _mishân_ <04937>, _for a staff_ to support
him. What the staff is to one that is ready to fall, the means of
recovering and preserving him; that was God to David in the time
of his extremity. For he several times preserved him from Saul,
when he, David, thought his destruction by him almost
unavoidable. See #1Sa 23:26,27|.--^Samuel Chandler.

        Verse 18.--"_They prevented me in the day of my calamity:
but the Lord was my stay_." When Henry the Eighth had spoken and
written bitterly against Luther; saith Luther, Tell the Henries,
the bishops, the Turks, and the devil himself, do what they can,
we are the children of the kingdom, worshipping of the true God,
whom they, and such as they, spit upon and crucified. And of the
same spirit were many martyrs. Basil affirms of the primitive
saints, that they had so much courage and confidence in their
sufferings, that many of the heathens seeing their heroic zeal
and constancy, turned Christians.--^Charles Bradbury.

                       HINTS TO PREACHERS.

        Verse 18.--The enemy's "craft," "_They prevented me in
the day of my calamity." The enemy chained. "_But the Lord was my
stay_."