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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 49:1
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Hear this, etc.] Not the law, as some Jewish writers f639 interpret it, which was not desirable to be heard by those that did hear it; it being a voice of wrath and terror, a cursing law, and a ministration of condemnation and death; but rather ad atywja, “this news”, as the Targum; the good news of the Gospel; the word of “this” salvation; the voice from heaven; the word not spoken by angels, but by the Lord himself: or hmkjh taz, “this wisdom”, as Kimchi interprets it; which the psalmist was about to speak of, (<194903>Psalm 49:3); also the parable and dark saying he should attend unto and open, (<194904>Psalm 49:4); and indeed it may take in the whole subject matter of the psalm; all [ye] people: not the people of Israel only, but all the people of the world, as appears from the following clause; whence it is evident that this psalm belongs to Gospel times; in which the middle wall of partition is broken down, and there is no difference of people; God is the God both of Jews and Gentiles; Christ is the Saviour and Redeemer of one as well as of the other; the Spirit of God has been poured out upon the latter; the Gospel has been sent into all the world, and all are called upon to hear it; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, or “of time”; so the word is rendered “age”, the age of a man, (<193905>Psalm 39:5). The inhabitants of this world are but for a time; wherefore Ben Melech interprets the phrase by ˆmwh yçna, “men of time”, the inhabitants of time; it is peculiar to the most High to “inhabit eternity”, (<235715>Isaiah 57:15). Under the Gospel dispensation there is no distinction of places; the Gospel is not confined to the land of Judea; the sound of it is gone into all the world, and men may worship God, and offer incense to his name, in every place; and whoever fears him in any nation is accepted of him.
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