Psalms 94:10. He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct?
Whole nations were driven out of Canaan to make room for Israel. Many other nations have been crushed, doubled up, utterly destroyed, on account of their sin. Everybody who reads history knows that this has been the case, so the psalmist argues, "He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? "He that executeth judgment upon heathen nations, can he not deal with sinful man, and with single individuals? He that broke the power of Persia, and Assyria, and Greece, and Rome, will he not punish guilty men when they dare to set themselves up as oppressors of his people?
Psalms 94:10. He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
Our translators finish the question by putting "Shall not he know?" but those words are not in the original, and they are not at all necessary to the argument. It is as if the psalmist broke off his utterances abruptly, as much as to say, "It is of no use arguing with you fellows," or else as if he said, "Finish my sentence yourselves; I put the truth so clearly before you that there is no escaping from it." "He that teacheth man knowledge:" if God has taught men all that they know, does not he himself know all that is to be known? The psalmist does not say so much as that in words; but he leaves us to draw that as the only inference from what he says.
Psalms 94:10. He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct?
Whole nations were driven out of Canaan to make room for Israel. Many other nations have been crushed, doubled up, utterly destroyed, on account of their sin. Everybody who reads history knows that this has been the case, so the psalmist argues, "He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? "He that executeth judgment upon heathen nations, can he not deal with sinful man, and with single individuals? He that broke the power of Persia, and Assyria, and Greece, and Rome, will he not punish guilty men when they dare to set themselves up as oppressors of his people?
Psalms 94:10. He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
Our translators finish the question by putting "Shall not he know?" but those words are not in the original, and they are not at all necessary to the argument. It is as if the psalmist broke off his utterances abruptly, as much as to say, "It is of no use arguing with you fellows," or else as if he said, "Finish my sentence yourselves; I put the truth so clearly before you that there is no escaping from it." "He that teacheth man knowledge:" if God has taught men all that they know, does not he himself know all that is to be known? The psalmist does not say so much as that in words; but he leaves us to draw that as the only inference from what he says.