Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
David speaks from hard experience: many conspired to keep him from the throne, and by mere reason he might have despaired. But he knew himself appointed by God, unsought and unforeseen, and so he steeled himself against the whole world with confidence in His power alone.
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Commenting on Psalm 2:1-12
"Ask of me." It was a custom among great kings, to give to favoured ones whatever they might ask. (See Esther 5:6; Matthew 14:7.) So Jesus hath but to ask and have. Here he declares that his very enemies are his inheritance. To their face he declares this decree, and "Lo!
Commenting on Psalm 2:8
We have heard what the kings of the earth have to say against Christ's kingdom, and have heard it gainsaid by him that sits in heaven; let us now hear what the Messiah himself has to say for his kingdom, to make good his claims, and it is what all the powers on earth cannot gainsay. I.
Commenting on Psalm 2:7-9