John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 27:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Though an host should encamp against me, etc.] An host of the ungodly, as the Targum; though ever so many of them, even ten thousands of them, as in (<190306>Psalm 3:6); should beset him on every side; my heart shall not fear; for not only the angels of the Lord encamped about him, as they do about all that fear the Lord; but salvation was appointed for walls and bulwarks about him; yea, the Lord himself was a wall of fire around him, and he was kept as in a garrison by the power of God; though war should rise against me: in all its terrible shapes: in this [will] I [be] confident; either in this war, in the midst of it; or in this that he had expressed, (<192701>Psalm 27:1); that the Lord was his light, his salvation, and the strength of his life; so the Jewish writers f423: or as others f424 , in this one thing, desired in (<192704>Psalm 27:4); but either of the former senses is best, especially the latter of them. Saints need not be afraid, though there is a war within them between the flesh and spirit; and though without are fightings with Satan and his principalities and powers; since they may be confident of victory, and that they are more than conquerors, through Christ that has loved them.

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