{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/psa081.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/psa081.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/psa081.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nPsalms 81:5\n \npsa 81:5\nJoseph - Among the people of Israel. Testimony - For a witness of that glorious deliverance. He - God. Went - As a captain at the head of his people. Egypt - To execute his judgments upon that land. I - My progenitors, for all the successive generations of Israel make one body, and are sometimes spoken of as one person. A language - The Egyptian language, which at first was unknown to the Israelites, Gen 42:13, and probably continued so for some considerable time, because they were much separated both in place and conversation from the Egyptians. \nPsalms 81:6\n \npsa 81:6\nPots - This word denotes all those vessels wherein they carried water, straw, lime, or bricks. \nPsalms 81:7\n \npsa 81:7\nCalledst - At the Red Sea. Secret place - From the dark and cloudy pillar, whence I thundered against the Egyptians. \nPsalms 81:8\n \npsa 81:8\nTestify - This God did presently after he brought them from Meribah, even at Sinai. \nPsalms 81:10\n \npsa 81:10\nWide - Either to pray for mercies, or to receive the mercies which I am ready to give you. \nPsalms 81:15\n \npsa 81:15\nHim - Unto Israel. Their time - Their happy time. \nPsalms 81:16\n \npsa 81:16\nHoney - With all pleasant and precious fruits.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 81","type":"page"}