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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 106 This psalm is without the name of its author, as the Syriac interpreter observes. Aben Ezra, on Psalms 106:47, says, that one of the wise men of Egypt (perhaps Maimonides) was of opinion that it was written in the time of the judges, when there was no king in Israel; and another, he says, thought it was written in Babylon: but he was of opinion it was wrote under the...
John Gill
Nevertheless, he saved them for his name's sake,.... Not for any worth or worthiness in them; not for their righteousness sake, for they were a rebellious and disobedient people; but for his name's sake, because his name was called upon them, and he was called the God of the Hebrews, as Aben Ezra observes; and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their ancestors; to whom he had promised the land...
Matthew Henry
We must give glory to God by making confession, not only of his goodness but our own badness, which serve as foils to each other. Our badness makes his goodness appear the more illustrious, as his goodness makes our badness the more heinous and scandalous. The foregoing psalm was a history of God's goodness to Israel; this is a history of their rebellions and provocations, and yet it begins and...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, — Oh, is not that a grand word? Well might Jehovah say, “Not for your sakes do I this, O house of Israel.” He saved them for his own sake, Psa_106:8. That he might make his mighty power to be known. Free grace finds in itself, not in us, its own motive, and discovers its own reason for acting on our behalf. God’s reason for mercy is found in his...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. He saved them, not for their own sakes, but for his name’s sake, for the manifestation of his own power and glory. This is how God still deals with his children; not on the ground of their merits, but for the manifestation of his own mercy and grace toward them.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. He could not save them for their own sake, but he saved them for his own name’s sake.