For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
This exhortation is directed to all nations, not Israel alone, which proves it concerns Christ's kingdom. The heathen were mute and deaf to God until the Gospel spread the knowledge of Him everywhere; the Spirit stirred the saints under the Law to praise God until that day came.
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Commenting on Psalm 96:1-13
For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He is no petty deity, presiding, as the heathen imagined their gods to do, over some one nation, or one department of nature. Jehovah is great in power and dominion, great in mind and act; nothing mean or narrow can be found in him or his acts, in all things he is infinite.
Sing unto the Lord a new song, a song for new favours, born of new affections in renewed hearts. Let all the earth sing it, not the Jews only; this is Gospel song, suited to the new covenant and the precious privileges that came with it, never to wax old.
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Commenting on Psalm 96:1-9