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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 27:5
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion, etc.] This, with what follows, is given as a reason why the psalmist desired to dwell in the house of the Lord; because he considered it as a pavilion or booth, as the word f426 signifies in which he should be hid by the Lord, in times of trouble and distress, either through the heat of persecution, or of inward anxiety of mind, caused by the working of a fiery law; the allusion being, as some think, to the shepherd’s tent or booth, into which he sometimes takes a poor sheep, and protects it from the scorching heat of the sun at noon: and of such use is the tabernacle of the Lord; (see <230406> Isaiah 4:6); in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; alluding either to the tents of generals of armies, who receive into them those whom they would protect from the insults and injuries of others; or rather to the most holy place in the tabernacle, called the secret place, (<260722>Ezekiel 7:22); typical of Christ, the hiding place of his, people, in whom their life is hid, and where it is safe and secure; he shall set me up upon a rock; where he would be above and out of the reach of his enemies; meaning Christ, comparable to a rock for its height, he being higher than the kings of the earth, than the angels in heaven, than the heavens themselves, and much more than the sons of men; (see <196102>
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