John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 29:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He maketh them also to skip like a calf, etc.] That is, the cedars, the branches being broken off, or they torn up by the roots, and tossed about by the wind; which motion is compared to that of a calf that leaps and skips about; Lebanon and Sirion, like a young unicorn; that is, these mountains move and skip about through the force of thunder, and the violence of an earthquake attending it; so historians report that mountains have moved from place to place, and they have met and dashed against one another f446. Sirion was a mountain in Judea near to Lebanon, and is the same with Hermon; which was called by the Sidonians Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir, (<050309>Deuteronomy 3:9). This may regard the inward motions of the mind, produced by the Gospel of Christ under a divine influence; (see <233506> Isaiah 35:6 40:4-8).

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