{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/psa085.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/psa085.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/psa085.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nPsalms 85:1\n \npsa 85:1\nCaptivity - The captives. \nPsalms 85:4\n \npsa 85:4\nTurn us - Restore us to our former tranquillity, and free us from the troubles which we yet groan under. \nPsalms 85:6\n \npsa 85:6\nRevive us - Give us a second reviving in bringing home the rest of our brethren, and in restraining our enemies. \nPsalms 85:8\n \npsa 85:8\nWill hear - Diligently observe. Will speak - What answer God will give to my prayers. Peace - He will give an answer of peace. Saints - Not to all that are called God's people, but only to those who are truly such. \nPsalms 85:9\n \npsa 85:9\nHis salvation - That compleat salvation for which all the Israel of God wait; even the redemption by the Messiah; of which not only Christian, but even Jewish writers understand this place; and to which the following passages properly belong. And the psalmist might well say this salvation was nigh, because the seventy weeks determined by Daniel were begun. Glory - The glorious presence of God, and the God of glory himself, even Christ, who is the brightness of his father's glory. \nPsalms 85:10\n \npsa 85:10\nKissed - That great work of redemption by Christ, shall clearly manifest God's mercy in redeeming his people Israel, and in the conversion of the Gentiles; his truth in fulfilling that great promise of sending his son, his righteousness in punishing sin, on his son, and in conferring righteousness upon guilty and lost creatures; and his peace or reconciliation to sinners, and that peace of conscience which attends upon it. \nPsalms 85:11\n \npsa 85:11\nTruth - Truth among men. Righteousness - And God's justice shall be satisfied: he shall look down upon sinful men with a smiling countenance. \nPsalms 85:13\n \npsa 85:13\nBefore him - As his harbinger. He shall fulfil all righteousness, he shall satisfy the righteousness of God, and shall advance righteousness and holiness among men. Set us - Shall cause us to walk in those righteous ways wherein he walketh.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 85","type":"page"}