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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,.... That is, Christ, who was afflicted by men, both by their tongues, and by their hands; by devils, by the temptations of Satan for Christ suffered being tempted, though he was not overcome; and by his attacks upon him, both in the garden and on the cross; and by the Lord...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation,.... Or, "my praise is from thee" (o); not that he should have praise of God, as he had, when he was received up into heaven, and set down at the right hand of God; but that God should be the object of his praise, as he was the cause of it; his salvation and deliverance of him, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: It is so here this evening; Christ is praising God in this congregation. As we read these words of his dying testimony, we too are encouraged to believe that the God who heard him will hear us and deliver us.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. He is talking the matter over to himself, and comforting himself with the prospect of the results of his suffering. He sees the vast numbers of people who will be saved through his atoning...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: He thought of you, poor, timid, trembling ones, you who are humbled before God under a sense of your sin. Because he died, because he accomplished your redemption, you “shall eat and be satisfied.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. Christ still praises God in the great congregation. On my way to this evening’s service, I called to see one of our dear brethren who is very ill, and I was much refreshed with a sweet thing that he said: — “When we all get to heaven, we shall feel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: He is still talking to himself about what would happen after his death and resurrection,-how gracious men would praise the Lord, and how he himself would live again to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The meek shall eat and be satisfied,.... Such who, being made thoroughly sensible of sin, look upon themselves the chief of sinners, and the least of saints; and being truly convicted of the insufficiency of their own righteousness, wholly trust to and rely on the righteousness of Christ; and, being acquainted with their impotency and inability to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. See what solace Christ derives from the spread of the faith, the conquest of the world by his death.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: Even in the time of his great agony, our Lord was thinking of you hidden ones, you little ones, who think yourselves worth nothing. Christ says that he was finding bread for you, for he gives us his flesh to eat, that flesh which is meat indeed. Psa_22:26. They shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Your heart shall live for ever. “I die, but by my death you shall live for ever.” He sees them, as it were gathered around his cross, and he congratulates himself upon the fact that he has bought eternal life for them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord,.... That is, all the elect of God among the Gentiles, who live in the farthermost parts of the world, for whom Christ is appointed to be their salvation, and whom he calls to look to him for it; these shall remember the Lord whom they have forgotten, and against whom they have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. He talks of the LORD, and he talks to the LORD: “Before thee.” He talks about God’s glory, and about the salvation of the heathen, and about all nations worshipping the one true God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. He sees the result of his death; he beholds the fruit of his soul-travail; and his heart is glad within him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. The conversion of the nations shall be the fruit of his death.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the kingdom [is] the Lord's,.... Not the kingdom of nature and providence, though that is the Lord Christ's; but the kingdom of grace, the mediatorial kingdom: this was Christ's by the designation and constitution of his Father from eternity; the government of the church was always upon his shoulders during the Old Testament dispensation; when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him; He himself was like a seed about to be put into the ground that he might bring forth fruit unto God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be fat upon earth shalt eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. This is in accordance with Isaiah’s prophecy: “When...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the nations. See how he distributes crowns, and talks of thrones, just as he is about to die,-so sure is he that his soul shall not rest in hades, neither shall his holy body see corruption, but that he shall rise again, and be for ever “King of kings, and Lord of lords.”