04-10-2010, 10:40 AM
:heartbeat::heartbeat: Psalm 8:5 :heartbeat::heartbeat:
Psalm 8
How Majestic Is Your Name - A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Friends, I rarely read the WT commentary for the day's scripture selection, but today I did glance over it... I was surprised to find mentions of Abel, Moses, Joshua, Solomon, "anointed Christians" and "Jesus' 'other sheep'", but no direct mention of this referring to Messiah! Reading Psalm 8, I thought this was surely about our Lord, so I wondered if I was wrong as I have a tendency to see Jesus in all of it :love: - so I did some further searching and found this ---
From Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible:
We are to consider the heavens, that man thus may be directed to set his affections on things above. What is man, so mean a creature, that he should be thus honoured! so sinful a creature, that he should be thus favoured! Man has sovereign dominion over the inferior creatures, under God, and is appointed their lord.
This refers to Christ. In Heb 2:6 to 8, the apostle, to prove the sovereign dominion of Christ, shows he is that Man, that Son of man, here spoken of, whom God has made to have dominion over the works of his hands. The greatest favour ever showed to the human race, and the greatest honour ever put upon human nature, were exemplified in the Lord Jesus. With good reason does the psalmist conclude as he began, Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, which has been honoured with the presence of the Redeemer, and is still enlightened by his gospel, and governed by his wisdom and power! What words can reach his praises, who has a right to our obedience as our Redeemer?
:heartbeat: Jesus really IS in ALL of it!
Hebrews 2:5-9
Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere (Psalm 8!) ,
"What is man, that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man, that you care for him?
You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you have crowned him with glory and honor,
putting everything in subjection under his feet."
Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. [ESV all]
:heartbeat: My love to you ALL,
Your friend and sister in Christ, Willa :heartbeat:
Psalm 8
How Majestic Is Your Name - A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Friends, I rarely read the WT commentary for the day's scripture selection, but today I did glance over it... I was surprised to find mentions of Abel, Moses, Joshua, Solomon, "anointed Christians" and "Jesus' 'other sheep'", but no direct mention of this referring to Messiah! Reading Psalm 8, I thought this was surely about our Lord, so I wondered if I was wrong as I have a tendency to see Jesus in all of it :love: - so I did some further searching and found this ---
From Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible:
We are to consider the heavens, that man thus may be directed to set his affections on things above. What is man, so mean a creature, that he should be thus honoured! so sinful a creature, that he should be thus favoured! Man has sovereign dominion over the inferior creatures, under God, and is appointed their lord.
This refers to Christ. In Heb 2:6 to 8, the apostle, to prove the sovereign dominion of Christ, shows he is that Man, that Son of man, here spoken of, whom God has made to have dominion over the works of his hands. The greatest favour ever showed to the human race, and the greatest honour ever put upon human nature, were exemplified in the Lord Jesus. With good reason does the psalmist conclude as he began, Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, which has been honoured with the presence of the Redeemer, and is still enlightened by his gospel, and governed by his wisdom and power! What words can reach his praises, who has a right to our obedience as our Redeemer?
:heartbeat: Jesus really IS in ALL of it!
Hebrews 2:5-9
Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere (Psalm 8!) ,
"What is man, that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man, that you care for him?
You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you have crowned him with glory and honor,
putting everything in subjection under his feet."
Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. [ESV all]
:heartbeat: My love to you ALL,
Your friend and sister in Christ, Willa :heartbeat: