He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. Poor. We must know whom we ought to relieve. Though we may be allowed to retain what is necessary, (2 Corinthians 8:13 and 9:11) yet the saints have often very laudably stripped themselves, to clothe others, abandoning perishable goods, that they might obtain heaven. Calmet.—Justice. Works of mercy are so called, because they concur to man’s justification. Worthington.—Horn. Power, and so forth Cyrus, and the best of his successors, honoured the Jews. Calmet.—The liberality of the just towards the indigent, is far more glorious than that which prompts the vain to give shews, and so forth Saint John Chrysostom—The praise of the latter is presently at an end. Bert.