1._Praise Jehovah from the heavens _He seems here to include the stars
as well as the angels, and, therefore, heaven itself, the air, and all
that is gendered in it; for afterwards a division is made when he
first calls upon angels, then upon the stars, and the waters of the
firmament. With regard t... [ Continue Reading ]
3._Praise him, ye sun and moon _This passage gives no countenance to
the dream of Plato, that the stars excel in sense and intelligence.
Nor does the Psalmist give them the same place as he had just assigned
to angels, but merely intimates that the glory of God is everywhere to
be seen, as if they s... [ Continue Reading ]
5._Let them praise the name_, _etc_. As he speaks of things wanting
intelligence, he passes to the third person, from which we infer that
his reason for having spoken in the second person hitherto, was to
make a deeper impression upon men. And he asks no other praise than
that which may teach us tha... [ Continue Reading ]
7._Praise Jehovah_, _etc_. He now comes to the lower parts of the
world; although deviating at the same time from the exact order, he
mixes up such things as are produced in the air — lightning’s,
snow, ice, and storms. These should rather have been placed among the
former class, but he has respect... [ Continue Reading ]
11._Kings of the earth_, _etc_. He now turns his address to men, with
a respect to whom it was that he called for a declaration of God’s
praises from creatures, both above and from beneath. As kings and
princes are blinded by the dazzling influence of their station, so as
to think the world was made... [ Continue Reading ]
14._And hath exalted the horn_, _etc_. As we saw in the former Psalm,
that the perfections of God are to be seen more conspicuously in the
Church than in the constitution of the world at large, the Psalmist
has added this sentence, as to the Church being protected by the
divine hand, and armed with... [ Continue Reading ]