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Psalms 129:1
1Many times have they afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
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Yet Spurgeon's commentator, John Field, clarifies what this plea was *not*: it was no prayer *to* David, nor did it suggest the dead saints intercede for us.
Aben-Ezra, the medieval Hebrew commentator, grasped this with clarity: their salvation shall be evident and conspicuous, just as a garment is.
He rejoices when you express your well-wishes toward His character and delights to hear your expressions of joy in His independent blessedness.
The gospel offers milk for babes and meat for strong men; the ordinances present a feast of fat things.
When the psalmist declares, "There will I make the horn of David to bud," he employs a vivid metaphor drawn from nature itself.
His selection springs entirely from His sovereign good pleasure, not from merit or deservedness.
Spurgeon observes that David's sons could never claim ignorance of their obligation.
In Psalm 132, David and his successors appealed to God's solemn covenant spoken through Nathan the prophet, words so momentous they remained fresh in Israel's memory for generations.
After Christianity's establishment, no further dispensation of Divine will shall follow.
Spurgeon's commentary, drawing from Thomas Playfere, presents a penetrating image: shame becomes as inseparable from the wicked as the very clothes a man wears wherever he journeys.
First, these afflictions possess antiquity—they reach back to youth itself, even to infancy and conception.