Psalms 118:6-21

I make no pause in these verses, because I think they contain a beautiful subject, in reference to the Lord Jesus in his ministry; and it were a pity to interrupt the reading. Let the Reader, when he hath read them, contemplate the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and see whether there is not a very plain allusion to our Lord in what is here said. Nay, doth it not strike him that Christ is the speaker? It is said that this patient sufferer doth not fear men nor princes. And how was this manifested, when both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together! Acts 4:27. Observe, how this patient sufferer speaks of one particular person; and who but Satan could this mean, with whom Christ had a personal conflict, and overcame him by his death, and will shortly-overcome him in all his members? Hebrews 2:14; Romans 16:20. And to whom are the everlasting gates opened, nay, who can demand their opening, but He who is Lord both of quick and dead? Psalms 24:7. In him, and by him indeed his people may, and certainly will, enter. Isaiah 26:2.