Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them, I will give thanks unto Jehovah.
David reached the throne not by his own wit or men's favor, but appointed by God Himself. He had faced mortal dangers a hundred times over; God alone delivered him. This temporal kingdom figures the eternal spiritual kingdom of Christ, in whom David's person is fulfilled.
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Commenting on Psalm 118:1-29
The stone which the builders refused,.... This is not Zerubabel, according to the sense of some Jews, as Theodoret suggests; nor the people of Israel, as Jarchi and Kimchi; nor David, as the Targum, which paraphrases the words, "the child the builders despised was among the sons of Jesse, and deserved to be appointed a king and a governor.'' He doubtless was a type of...
Those who would enter God's gates must come as humble suitors, longing for admission into His sanctuary. Christ is that gate, the only way the righteous enter; by Him alone our praises reach the Father, for there is no coming to God but through Him.
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Commenting on Psalm 118:19-29