{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/geneva/psa047.htm","path":"bib/cmt/geneva/psa047.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/geneva/psa047.htm","text":"The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, [1599]\n(a) Here is figured Christ to whom all his should give willing obedience, and who would show himself terrible to the wicked.\nHe shall (b) subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.\n(b) He has made the Jews who were the keepers of the law and prophets, schoolmasters to the Gentiles, that they would with gladness obey them.\nHe shall choose (c) our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.\n(c) God has chosen us above all other nations, to enjoy a most glorious inheritance.\nGod is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the (d) sound of a trumpet.\n(d) He alludes to the trumpets that were blown at solemn feasts: but he further signifies the triumph of Christ and his glorious ascension into the heavens.\nFor God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with (e) understanding.\n(e) He requires that understanding be joined with singing, lest the Name of God be profaned with vain crying.\nThe princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth [belong] unto God: he (f) is greatly exalted.\n(f) He praises God's highness, for that he joins the great princes of the world (whom he calls shields) to the fellowship of his Church.","title":"The Geneva Bible Translation Notes [1599]: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 47","type":"page"}