INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 110 A PSALM OF DAVID. This psalm was written by David, as the title shows, and which is confirmed by our Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 22:43 and by the Apostle Peter, Acts 2:34 and was not written by anyone of the singers concerning him, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi; nor by Melchizede... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD,.... The Targum is, "the Lord said in his Word.'' Galatinus q says the true Targum of Jonathan has it, "the Lord said to his Word;'' and produces an authority for it. These are the words of Jehovah the Father to his Son the Messiah; the "Adon", or Lord, spoken of in Is... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SHALL SEND THE ROD OF THY STRENGTH OUT OF ZION,.... His royal and powerful sceptre, called the sceptre of righteousness, Psalms 45:6 and is no other than the Gospel, the power of God unto salvation; and which is mighty through him, for the reducing souls to the obedience of Christ; when it... [ Continue Reading ]
THY PEOPLE SHALL BE WILLING IN THE DAY OF THAT POWER..... Or, in the day of thine army s. When thou musterest thy forces, sendest forth thy generals, the apostles and ministers of the word, in the first times of the Gospel; when Christ went forth working with them, and their ministry was attended wi... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD HATH SWORN, AND WILL NOT REPENT,.... What he swore about, and did not repent of, was the priesthood of Christ, as follows; and which shows the importance of it, since when Jehovah swears, as it is by himself, because he can swear by no greater; so it is about matters of great moment only th... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD AT THY RIGHT HAND,.... These words are either directed to Christ, at whose right hand the Lord was to help and assist him, Psalms 16:8 or to the church, consisting of the Lord's willing people, at whose right hand he is to save them; is ready to help them, and is a present help to them in t... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL JUDGE AMONG THE HEATHEN,.... Either rule among the Gentiles, making them through his Gospel obedient by word and deed, and so reigning in their hearts by his Spirit and grace; and, by making many converts among them, enlarge his dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of th... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL DRINK OF THE BROOK IN THE WAY,.... This some understand of the sufferings of Christ, compared to a brook, a flow of waters, because of the abundance of them, as in Psalms 69:1, his partaking of which is sometimes expressed by drinking, Matthew 20:22 and this was in the way of working out t... [ Continue Reading ]