3. The hearts of believers. We rather expect this distinction to manifest itself here. Verses 1-12: Sometimes Psalm 2 is said to share with Psalm 1 in the role of introducing the Psalter (compare “blessed” in 1:1 and 2:12). בר is found also in Proverbs 31:2, for בן. Others are so by creation and adoption; He alone by eternal generation. Kissing is often used in Scripture to express submission, love, and adoration. In our proverbials, to take a thing in snuff, is to take it in anger. Christ is God’s elect, Isaiah 42:1, Matthew 12:14. The testimony of our love to this person is the kiss. Though he appeared as the prince of peace, came diffusing blessings on every side, brought the most welcome tidings, spake as never man spake, and, in his life, appeared the pattern of every thing great and excellent; yet against him is the fiercest rage of earth and hell levelled. And ye perish from the way - The word from in this place is supplied by the translators. ., pp601-2.]. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/srn/psalms-2.html. Psalms 2:12. (Calmet) --- Amama blames the Vulgate for withdrawing a text in favour of Christ's divinity. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him! "Scofield Reference Notes on Psalms 2:12". Two things are promised him at his request: (1.) The design seems to be to represent them as pursuing a certain journey or path - as life is often represented (compare Psalm 1:1) - and as being cut down before they reached the end of their journey. Salvation cannot be cut in twain, If you would have justification you must have sanctification too. (3) The vexation ( Psalm 2:5) fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem, A.D70 , and the dispersion of the Jews at that time; yet to be fulfilled more completely in the tribulation ( Matthew 24:29 [sic 15-20]) which immediately precedes the return of the King ( Matthew 24:30). for dust of the earth to rise up against him who sitteth in the heavens? BibliographyBeza, Theodore. 1371. , in a moment, as Jarchi interprets it; and so sudden wrath brings sudden destruction; blessed are all they that put their trust in him; not in horses and chariots, in riches and honours, in their own wisdom, strength, and righteousness; but in the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and who is truly and properly God; or otherwise faith and trust would not be required to be put in him: and happy are those who betake themselves to him as to their strong hold and place of defence; who look to him and believe in him for pardon, peace, righteousness, every supply of grace and eternal life; these are safe and secure in him, nor shall they want any good thing needful for them; and they have much peace, joy, and comfort here, and shall have more grace as they want it, and hereafter eternal glory and happiness. It occurs 152 times in the O.T., and is the rendering of Heb. This concise mariner of speech is easily explained, if we only expand it a little more: he was sick, and this sickness affected his feet, etc. blessed that put their trust in him. (Genesis xli. BibliographyTorrey, R. A. Verse 12. The verb used, נשׁק can mean "to kiss", but it has another meaning -- and that is "to arm" (meaning to equip with weapons). Some explain the phrases, to perish from the way, as meaning, a perverse way, or wicked manner of listing. This outward act has been diversely depraved and vitiated amongst men. Lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way; that is, by leaving the way of righteousness, and turning to the paths of sin and death: or, in the way, being cut off in the midst of your iniquities: or, suddenly, as the word may be rendered, by some divine judgment stopping the sinner short in his career of wickedness. constr. The occasion of this fury is observed; they cannot endure the government of the Lord's Anointed, or bear him in any of his characters as prophet, priest, or king. Various other explanations which have been tried have partly usage against them, and partly the circumstance that the mention of the Son of God here is quite natural after Psalms 2:7. The decree is gone forth, and he himself hath declared it. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Psalms 2:12". He had too frequently experienced, on the one hand, the contumacy and rebellious disposition of his domestic and foreign subjects; and on the other hand, the help of God in subduing them, to find it at all strange for him to transfer these relations in a more enlarged form to his antitype, which he probably did at a time when his experience in this respect was fresh and lively, about the period of his second great victory over the Syrians, 2 Samuel 8:6 : "And the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts; and the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went;" 2 Samuel 10:6, where the Syrians are said to have joined with the Ammonites against David, and 2 Samuel 10:19, where we are told, that after David's victory over them, "all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer, when they saw that they were smitten before Israel, made peace with Israel, and served them." Psalm 1 emphasizes God’s Law while Psalm 2 focuses on prophesy. Sanhedrin, fol. 12. Kiss, a sign of love among equals: Genesis 33:4 1 Samuel 20:41 ; Romans 16:16 1 Corinthians 16:20 . The advice given in the text is--“rebel no more against God.” You have done so some of you, actively and wilfully, others of you by ignoring His claims and utterly neglecting His will. In Him is security and salvation, for by Him sin and death has been conquered and through Him we have access the Father for He is the one way, the only truth and the revealed Word of God. Hell may and will oppose; the world, with all its powers, will join the confederacy; and poor fallen man, while continuing in the unrenewed state of nature, will be as outrageous as either. This cannot, with any colour, be applied to David, who always dissuaded all men from putting their trust in princes, or any child of man, or any thing besides or below God. As applied to the Messiah, it means submission to him in his character of Saviour, and honouring him, as we also honour the Father, in obedience to that Father's command. Him men must kiss with a kiss of adoration and subjection, with a kiss of faith and love, 1 Peter 5:14. "Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament". "Commentary on Psalms 2:12". "And ye perish in the way." Such a kiss was given for the most part not upon the mouth, but upon the kisser's own garment, or upon the hand of the person kissed. (Calmet) --- Some fall from salvation, and God will bring them to judgment at the end of this short life. God derides the impotent menaces of his foes; he sits secure against their rage, serene and undisturbed with their tumults; and looks down with scorn on their vain imaginations. All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. Thus we see that the gospel of Jesus has already gone forth unto the ends of the earth, and reached even to us. Moreover, although this word appears to be put for the purpose of giving a reason of what goes before, (31) namely, why those who refuse to kiss the Son shall perish, and although the Hebrew word כי, ki, signifies more frequently for than when, yet I am unwilling to depart from the commonly received translation, and have thought it proper to render the original word by the adverb when, which denotes both the reason and time of what is predicated. Psalm 2:12 . But all they who trust in him - who repose all their trust and confidence in him as their atonement and as their Lord, shall be blessed with innumerable blessings, For as the word is the same here as in Psalm 1:1, אשרי ashrey, it may be translated the same. Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way, For His wrath may soon be kindled. and princes plot together. This advice is urgent. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/psalms-2.html. 1052. , "immediately", or "straightway", and our English word "directly" is almost the same; and so may design the swift and sudden destruction of such persons who provoke the Son to wrath and anger; which sense is confirmed by what follows; when his wrath is kindled but a little; either to a small degree, or but for a little while; for the least degree and duration of it are intolerable, and who then can dwell in everlasting burnings, or abide the devouring flames? When God instructs His Son to ask for His inheritance, He will then bring Jesus back into the world (i.e, back to earth; Hebrews 1:6). The King, who is the subject of this Psalm, appears here as Son of God in a sense as exclusive as that in which God Himself is God. Being exalted to the throne of Majesty on high in virtue of his sufferings, according to the conditions of the covenant of redemption, all power is given him in heaven and in earth. Kiss the Son — The Son of God, in token of your subjection and adoration; of which this was a sign among the eastern nations; lest ye perish from the way — Be taken out of the way by death or destruction. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. The Hebrew word בר Bar, signifies both a son and an elect person; but in whatever way you take it, the meaning will remain the same. What Does Psalm 4:8 Mean? BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/psalms-2.html. "Commentary on Psalms 2:12". But then, lest that persuasion by love should not be effectual and powerful enough to us, we shall descend from that duty, to the danger, from love, to fear, "lest he be angry;" and therein see first, that God, who is love, can be angry; and then, that this God who is angry here, is the Son of God, he that hath done so much for us, and therefore in justice may be angry; he that is our Judge, and therefore in reason we are to fear his anger: and then, in a third branch, we shall see how easily this anger departs -- a kiss removes it. Precious Lamb of God! 2 Chronicles 17:17. "Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition)". "The2nd Psalm gives the order of the establishment of the kingdom. Should the beginning phrase of Psalm 2:12 be translated as "embrace purity," such as is found in Jewish translations, or "Kiss the son," such as is found in Christian translations? Or, perish out of the way by losing the right way, by taking wrong and evil courses, the end of which will be your certain and utter ruin. “Lest He be angry.” Anger and love, in God, are not incompatible. The apostles applied this idea to the persecution of Jesus by Israel's religious leaders (Acts 4:27–28). ; that is, because of their sinful course of life; for the way of the ungodly shall perish itself, and therefore they that pursue it shall perish also: others render it "in the way"F15"In via", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Ainsworth, Gejerus. Every sinner, not yet reconciled to God through Christ, should receive this as a most solemn warning. "Let him kiss me," was the church's prayer. (2.) To "the raging and imagining a vain thing," corresponds the exhortation, "Be wise and warned." The curse and the blessing unite to add force to the appeal, “Kiss the Son.” (James Wells, M. The passage is quoted and expressly applied to Christ by the whole college of apostles, after they had received the plenary inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So also here, "perish the way," must mean, "perish as to the way." https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pmc/psalms-2.html. The phrase kiss the son is important, both in its original context and in its significant messianic implications. So doth the Lord Christ; and every good soul is ready to say as the poet did. Ewald, 659. A kiss of allegiance and homage. Since Jesus is exalted king in Zion, and opposition vain, it is most highly our interest to court his favour, as it is our bounden duty to submit to his government. In a word, Hilary hath expressed it well: "Poena patientis, ira decernentis"; "Man's suffering is God's anger." ], and trusting in him as “The Lord our Righteousness [Note: Jeremiah 23:6. It entities him to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance in heaven.
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