For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
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
In the second verse we have the reason why the world belongs to God, namely, because he has created it, which is a title beyond all dispute. "For he hath founded it upon the seas." It is God who lifts up the earth from out of the sea, so that the dry land, which otherwise might in a moment be submerged, as in the days...
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