My praise [shall be] of thee in the great
congregation
Or, "my praise is from thee" F15; not that he should have
praise of God, as he had, when he was received up into heaven,
and set down at the right hand of God; but that God should be the
object of his praise, as he was the cause of it; his salvation
and deliverance of him, and resurrection from the dead, and
exaltation of him, were the occasion and matter of it: the place
where Christ determined to praise the Lord is "the great
congregation"; either his apostles, who, though a little flock,
yet, on account of their extraordinary office and gifts, and
peculiar privileges, were the greatest congregation that ever was
in the world; or the five hundred brethren to whom Christ
appeared at once after his resurrection; or else the whole church
under the Gospel dispensation; in the midst of which Christ is,
and who in the members of it praises the name of the Lord; and
this especially will have its accomplishment at the latter day,
when great multitudes will be converted, and the voice of praise
and thanksgiving will be among them, ( Revelation
7:9 Revelation
7:10 ) ( 11:15 ) (
Revelation 14:1
Revelation 14:2 ) (
Revelation 19:1
Revelation 19:5
Revelation 19:6 ) ;
I will pay my vows before them that fear him;
either those which he made in the council and covenant of grace,
when he engaged to become a surety for his people, to assume
their nature, to suffer and die for them, to redeem them from sin
and misery, and bring them nigh to God, and save them with an
everlasting salvation; all which he has openly done; see (
Psalms
31:19 ) ; or those which he made in ( Psalms 22:21
) ; that he would declare the name of the Lord unto his brethren,
and sing praise unto him in the midst of the church; compare with
this ( Psalms
116:12-14 ) .
F15 (Ktam) (para sou) , Sept. "a te", Pagninus, Montanus, Rivetus, Cocceius, Ainsworth.