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EXPOSITION.
"_Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the
people_." Internal strife is very hard to deal with. A civil war
is war in its most miserable form; it is a subject for warmest
gratitude when concord rules within. Our poet praises Jehovah for
the union and peace which smiled in his dominions, and if we have
peace in the three kingdoms of our spirit, soul, and body, we are
in duty bound to give Jehovah a song. Unity in a church should
assuredly excite like gratitude. "_Thou hast made me the head of
the heathen; a people whom I have not known shall serve me_." The
neighbouring nations yielded to the sway of Judah's prince. Oh
when shall all lands adore King Jesus, and serve him with holy
joy? Surely there is far more of Jesus than of David here.
Missionnries may derive rich encouragement from the positive
declaration that heathen lands shall own the Headship of the
Crucified.
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.
Verses 43,44.--If these words can be explained literally
of David, they apply much more naturally to Jesus Christ, who has
been delivered from the strivings of the Jewish people; when,
after the terrible opposition he met with on their part, to the
establishment of the gospel, he was made the head of the Gentiles
who were a strange people, and whom he had not formerly
acknowledged as his, but who nevertheless obeyed him with
astonishing readiness as soon as they heard his voice.--^Louis
Isaac le Maistre de Stacy, 1613-1684.
HINTS TO PREACHERS.
Verse 43 (last clause).--Our natural and sinful distance
from Christ, no bar to grace.