Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.
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Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.
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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.
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London :: Printed by John Richardson, for Thomas Parkhurst, Dorman Newman, Jonathan Robinson, Bradbazon Ailmer, Thomas Cockeril, and Benjamin Alsop,
M.DC.LXXXIII [1683]
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"Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55363.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 25, 2025.
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PSAL. LXVII.
To the chief musician on Neginoth, a Psalm or Song.
This Psalm contains a Prayer for the Church of Israel, as also for the Gentile-World, whose Conversion he Prophetically describes.
1 GOd be merciful unto us a 1.1, and bless us, and* 1.2 caus his face to shine † 1.3 upon us b 1.4, Selah.
2 That thy way may be known upon earth c 1.5, thy saving health among all nations.
3 Let the people praise thee, O God, let all the people praise thee d 1.6.
4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy e 1.7, for thou shalt judg f 1.8 the people righteously g 1.9, and † 1.10 govern h 1.11 the nations upon earth, Selah.
5 Let the people praise thee, O God, let all the people praise thee.
6 * 1.12Then shall the earth yield her increase i 1.13, and God, even our own God k 1.14 shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Nor do we desire this Mercy onely for our Comfort, but also for the Advancement of thy Glory, and the Propagation of the true Religion among all Nations, who by the Contem∣plation of thy Gracious and wonderful Works, to and for us, will be induced to Love and serve thee, and to list themselves among thy People. By God's way he understands; Either, 1. That way wherein God Walks; or the manner of his dealing with his People, how Gracious and bountiful a Master thou art to all thy Servants. Or rather, 2. That way wherein God requires Men to walk, the way of Gods Precepts, the way of Truth, or the true Religion; as the way or ways of the Lord, are frequently taken, Gen. 18. 19. Iudg. 2. 22. Psal. 18. 21. and 119. 1. Act. 18. 25. 26, &c. the same which in the next Clause is called his Saving Health, Heb. Salvation, and both together signifie the way of Salvation, which the Psalmist de∣sires, may be known among all Nations; which was expect∣ed by the Antient and ungodly Iews, at the coming of the Messias, who is called the way, Ioh. 14. 6. and God's Salvati∣on, Luk. 2. 30. And so the Sence of the place is this, deal so graciously with thy People Israel, that thereby the Gentile-World may at last be allured to joyn themselves with them, and to embrace their Religion and Messias, according to that famous Prophecy, Zech. 8. 23. In those days ten Men—out of all—Nations—shall take hold of the skirt of—a Iew; saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
O hasten that time, when all the Gentiles shall forsake their dumb Idols, and serve and Praise thee the Living God, as they will have abundant cause to do.
For thy Transcendent Mercy to them, in rescuing them from the Vanities and damnable Errors of their Fathers, and in bringing them to the knowledge of the true God, and of eternal Life.
Which is the great Commendation of any Government, and the great∣est Argument and Encouragement to the Gentiles, to put them∣selves under it the rather; Because they had found the Mise∣ry of Living under the unrighteous and Tyrannical Govern∣ment of the Devil, and of their Idolatrous and heathenish Rulers.
When the People of the Earth shall be Converted to the Worship and Service of the true God, God will take away his Curse from the Earth, and cause it to yield them abundance of all sorts of Fruits. Under which one Blessing, Promised un∣der the Law to them, that obey God, all other Blessings both Temporal and Spiritual are Comprehended, as is very usual in the Old Testament.