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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 113:7
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, etc.] Persons of mean extraction and in low life are sometimes raised by him to great honour and dignity, as Saul, David, and others; and is true of many who are spiritually poor and needy, as all men are, but all are not sensible of it; some are, and these are called poor “in spirit”, and are pronounced “blessed”, for “theirs is the kingdom of heaven”: they are raised out of a low and mean estate, out of the dust of sin, and self-abhorrence for it, in which they lie when convicted of it. And lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; which denotes a mean condition; so one born in a mean place, and brought up in a mean manner, is sometimes represented as taken out of a dunghill f1598: and also it is expressive of a filthy one; men by sin are not only brought into a low estate, but into a loathsome one, and are justly abominable in the sight of God, and yet he lifts them out of it: the phrases of “raising up” and “lifting out” suppose them to be fallen, as men are in Adam, fallen from a state of honour and glory, in which he was created, into a state of sin and misery, and out of which they cannot deliver themselves; it is Christ’s work, and his only, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to help or lift up his servant Israel, (<234906>Isaiah 49:6 <420154>Luke 1:54 <090208>1 Samuel 2:8).
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