Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
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
We have, in these first three verses, a description of the hatred of human nature against the Christ of God. No better comment is needed upon it than the apostolic song in Acts 4:27, 28: "For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for...
Commenting on Psalm 2:1
Satan knows that as Christ's kingdom rises, his falls, so he wages war without mercy. But mark the paradox: never were false philosophies or tyrannies resisted so fiercely as Christ's doctrine and rule. That violence proves it came from heaven, for the opposition plainly came from hell.
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Commenting on Psalm 2:1-6