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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 83:18
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, etc.] Or, “that thou, thy name alone is Jehovah” f1200, a self-existent Being, the Being of beings, the everlasting I AM, the immutable God; for this name is expressive of the being, eternity, and unchangeableness of God, who is, and was, and is to come, invariably the same, (<660104>Revelation 1:4) which is to be understood not to the exclusion of the Son or Spirit, who are with the Father the one Jehovah, (<050604>Deuteronomy 6:4), and to whom this name is given; (see <021706>Exodus 17:6), compared with (<461009>1 Corinthians 10:9 <234003>Isaiah 40:3 <242306>Jeremiah 23:6) (<230608>Isaiah 6:8,9) compared with (<442825>Acts 28:25,26), but to the exclusion of all nominal and fictitious deities, the gods of the Heathens; and the being and perfections of God are known by the judgments he executes, (<190916>Psalm 9:16), art the most High over all the earth; or, and that thou art, etc. f1201, being the Maker and the Possessor of it, and the sovereign Lord of its inhabitants, doing in it what seems good in his sight; (see <011422>Genesis 14:22 <270435>Daniel 4:35), for the accents require two propositions in the text: the Heathens f1202 give the title of most high to their supreme deity: the Targum is, “over all the inhabitants of the earth.”
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