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EXPOSITION.
"_For thou wilt save the afflicted people_." This is a
comforting assurance for the poor in spirit whose spiritual
griefs admit of no sufficient solace from any other than a divine
hand. They cannot save themselves nor can others do it, but God
will save them. "_But wilt bring down high looks_." Those who
look down on others with scorn shall be looked down upon with
contempt ere long. The Lord abhors a proud look. What a reason
for repentance and humiliation! How much better to be humble than
to provoke God to humble us in his wrath! A considerable number
of clauses occur in this passage in the future tense; how
forcibly are we thus brought to remember that our present joy or
sorrow is not to have so much weight with us as the great and
eternal future!
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.
Verse 27.--"_The afflicted people_." The word rendered
"_afflicted_," properly signifies "poor" or "needy." The persons
spoken of are obviously afflicted ones, for they need to be saved
or delivered; but it is not their affliction, so much as their
poverty, that is indicated by the epithet here given them; and,
from the poor being contrasted, not with the wealthy, but with
the proud--for that is the meaning of the figurative expression,
"the man of high looks"--it seems plain that, though the great
body of the class referred to have always been found among the
comparatively "poor in this world," the reference is to those
poor ones whom our Lord represents as "poor in spirit."--^John
Brown.
Verse 27.--"_High looks_:" namely, _the proud_; the
raising up of the eyebrows being a natural sign of that vice. #Ps
101:5; Pr 6:17|.--^John Diodati.
HINTS TO PREACHERS.
Verse 27.--Consolation for the humble, and desolation for
the proud.
Verse 27 (second clause).--The bringing down of high
looks. In a way of grace and justice. Among saints and sinners,
etc. A wide theme.