The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
God made the earth and all it holds, yet He chose the children of Abraham from all mankind to be His peculiar people and erected His sanctuary as His dwelling among them. But the temple stood open to every Jew only in name; God drew near only to those who feared and served Him in sincerity, cleansed from the world's pollution and devoted to holiness.
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Commenting on Psalm 24:1-10
How very different is this from the ignorant Jewish notion of God which prevailed in our Saviour's day? The Jews said, "The holy land is God's, and the seed of Abraham are his only people;" but their great Monarch had long before instructed them, — "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." The whole round world is claimed for Jehovah, "and they that...
Here is, I. God's absolute propriety in this part of the creation where our lot is cast, Psa 24:1. We are not to think that the heavens, even the heavens only, are the Lord's, and the numerous and bright inhabitants of the upper world, and that this earth, being so small and inconsiderable a part of the creation, and at such a distance from the...
Commenting on Psalm 24:1-2