John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 45:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And of Zion it shall be said, etc.] The same with the city of God, the church before commended: this and that man was born in her; this and that great man, in opposition to a mean person, in the preceding verse: “or a man and man” f1235; men of all sorts, and of different nations, Jews and Gentiles, and great numbers of them: and the Highest himself shall establish her; the church of God, though founded by him, and laid on a sure foundation, on the Rock of ages, against which the gates of hell cannot prevail, yet is sometimes fluctuating and unsettled; it is tossed with tempests, the persecutions of men, the errors and heresies of false teachers, and the contentions and divisions of its own members; and is not always in one place, but is removed from one place to another, and is obliged to flee into the wilderness; but in the latter day it will be established and settled; it will be a tabernacle that shall not be taken down nor removed; but shall be established for ever, (<198937>Psalm 89:37), and this is the work of God, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, whatever instruments he may make use of, as ministers of the word, and kings of the earth; as it is his work, and his only, to establish particular believers, (<470121>2 Corinthians 1:21), so it is his to establish the church in general: or it may be rendered, “he shall establish her on high” f1236, which will be the case when she is established upon the top of the mountains, and exalted above the hills, (<230202>Isaiah 2:2).

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