{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/108/1080025.htm","path":"chr/ecf/108/1080025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/108/1080025.htm","text":"Psalm XXI. 584\nTo the end, a psalm of David himself.\n1. The title is a familiar one; the Psalm is of Christ. 585\n2. \u201cO Lord, the King shall rejoice in Thy strength\u201d (Psa. 21.1). O Lord, in Thy strength, whereby the Word was made flesh, the Man Christ Jesus shall rejoice. \u201cAnd shall exult exceedingly in Thy salvation.\u201d And in that, whereby Thou quickenest all things, shall exult exceedingly.\n3. \u201cThou hast given Him the desire of His soul\u201d (Psa. 21.2). He desired to eat the Passover, 586 and to lay down His life when He would, and again when He would to take it; and Thou hast given it to Him. 587 \u201cAnd hast not deprived Him of the good pleasure of His lips.\u201d \u201cMy peace,\u201d saith He, \u201cI leave with you:\u201d 588 and it was done.\n4. \u201cFor Thou hast presented Him with the blessings of sweetness\u201d (Psa. 21.3). Because He had first quaffed the blessing of Thy sweetness, the gall of our sins did not hurt Him. \u201cDiapsalma. Thou hast set a crown of precious stone on His Head.\u201d 589 At the beginning of His discoursing precious stones were brought, and compassed Him about; 590 His disciples, from whom the commencement of His preaching should be made.\n5. \u201cHe asked life; and Thou gavest Him:\u201d He asked a resurrection, saying, \u201cFather, glorify Thy Son;\u201d 591 and Thou gavest it Him, \u201cLength of days for ever and ever\u201d (Psa. 21.4). The prolonged ages of this world which the Church was to have, and after them an eternity, world without end.\n6. \u201cHis glory is great in Thy salvation\u201d (Psa. 21.5). Great indeed is His glory in the salvation, whereby Thou hast raised Him up again. \u201cGlory and great honour shalt Thou lay upon Him.\u201d But Thou shalt yet add unto Him glory and great honour, when Thou shalt place Him in heaven at Thy right hand.\n7. \u201cFor Thou shalt give Him blessing for ever and ever.\u201d This is the blessing which Thou shalt give Him for ever and ever: \u201cThou shalt make Him glad in joy together with Thy countenance\u201d (Psa. 21.6). According to His manhood, Thou shalt make Him glad together with Thy countenance, which He lifted up to Thee.\n8. \u201cFor the King hopeth in the Lord.\u201d For the King is not proud, but humble in heart, he hopeth in the Lord. \u201cAnd in the mercy of the Most Highest He shall not be moved\u201d (Psa. 21.7). And in the mercy of the Most Highest His obedience even unto the death of the Cross shall not disturb His humility.\n9. \u201cLet Thy hand be found by all Thine enemies.\u201d Be Thy power, O King, when Thou comest to judgment, found by all Thine enemies; who in Thy humiliation discerned it not. \u201cLet Thy right hand find out all that hate Thee\u201d (Psa. 21.8). Let the glory, wherein Thou reignest at the right hand of the Father, find out for punishment in the day of judgment all that hate Thee; for that now they have not found it.\n10. \u201cThou shalt make them like a fiery oven:\u201d Thou shalt make them on fire within, by the consciousness of their ungodliness: \u201cIn the time of Thy countenance:\u201d in the time of Thy manifestation. \u201cThe Lord shall trouble them in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them\u201d (Psa. 21.9). And then, being troubled by the vengeance of the Lord, after the accusation of their conscience, they shall be given up to eternal fire, to be devoured.\n11. \u201cTheir fruit shalt Thou destroy out of the earth.\u201d Their fruit, because it is earthly, shalt Thou destroy out of the earth. \u201cAnd their seed from the sons of men\u201d (Psa. 21.10). And their works; or, whomsoever they have seduced, Thou shalt not reckon among the sons of men, whom Thou hast called into the everlasting inheritance.\n12. \u201cBecause they turned evils against Thee.\u201d Now this punishment shall be recompensed to them, because the evils which they supposed to hang over them by Thy reign, they turned against Thee to Thy death. \u201cThey imagined a p. 58 device, which they were not able to establish\u201d (Psa. 21.11). They imagined a device, saying, \u201cIt is expedient that one die for all:\u201d 592 which they were not able to establish, not knowing what they said.\n13. \u201cFor Thou shalt set them low.\u201d For Thou shalt rank them among those from whom in degradation and contempt Thou wilt turn away. \u201cIn Thy leavings 593 Thou shalt make ready their countenance\u201d (Psa. 21.12). And in these things that Thou leavest, that is, in the desires of an earthly kingdom, Thou shalt make ready their shamelessness for Thy passion.\n14. \u201cBe Thou exalted, O Lord, in Thy strength\u201d (Psa. 21.13). Be Thou, Lord, whom in humiliation they did not discern, exalted in Thy strength, which they thought weakness. \u201cWe will sing and praise Thy power.\u201d In heart and in deed we will celebrate and make known Thy marvels.\n[Prophetic of His ascension.\u2014C.]\n57:586 57:587 57:588 57:589\n[Rev. xix. 12. Our author agrees with the Septuagint and the Vulgate here, as to \u201cprecious stone.\u201d Jerome gives coronam obrizam. Gr. \u1f44\u03b2\u03c1\u03c5\u03b6\u03bf\u03bd.\u2014C.]\n57:590 57:591 58:592 58:593\n[In reliquiis tuis. So Vulgate.\u2014C.]","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII: Expositions on...","type":"page"}