OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 97:1

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The LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

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Verse 1. David. His name occurs not in Hebrew though the psalm is worthy of him. Bert.—It may refer to the return from captivity, as a figure of the world’s redemption.—Things. In rescuing his people from slavery, and in the incarnation. Calmet.—For him. Or alone. Menochius.—Christ raised himself by his own power. Calmet. Isaiah 62:5.—He redeemed mankind for his own glory, sibi. Bert.

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