He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
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
It must not be supposed that the persons who are thus described by their inward and outward holiness are saved by the merits of their works; but their works are the evidences by which they are known. The present verse shows that in the saints grace reigns and grace alone.