He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
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
The true Israel are not marked by their bloodline but by their character. The courtiers who stand in God's holy palace are a people purified and made meet to dwell on His hill, not Jews alone, nor Gentiles alone, but all whom God has fitted for His presence.
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Commenting on Psalm 24:3
Clean hands mean outward, practical holiness, and many professors have perverted faith by treating good works with contempt; they will receive everlasting contempt in return. But clean hands without a pure heart are nothing; true religion is heart-work, and God judges the inward parts we cannot hide from Him.
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