They shall come
One generation after another; there shall always be a succession
of regenerate persons, who shall come to Christ, and to his
churches; and a succession of Gospel ministers among them, who
shall come forth, being sent and qualified by Christ;
and shall declare his righteousness,
either the faithfulness of God, in fulfilling his promises;
especially those which respect the mission of Christ, and
salvation by him, as Zacharias did, ( Luke
1:68-73 ) ; or rather the righteousness of Christ, which is
revealed in the Gospel, and makes a most considerable part of the
declaration of it, and is published by Gospel ministers in all
ages, as the only justifying righteousness before God: and that
unto a people that shall be born;
in successive generations; that shall be brought upon the stage
of time and life; or that shall be born again; for to such only,
in a spiritual and saving way, is the righteousness of Christ
declared, revealed, and applied, by the blessed Spirit, through
the ministry of the word: it is added,
that he hath done [this];
wrought this righteousness; so Jarchi; that is, is the author of
it; is become the end of the law for it; has finished it, and
brought it in; or else all the great things spoken of in this
psalm, relating to the Messiah, his sufferings, death, and
resurrection, and the calling of the Gentiles; all which are the
Lord's doings, and are what is declared in the Gospel: the Targum
is, "the miracles which he hath done"; the Septuagint version,
and those that follow it, connect this clause with the preceding
thus, "to a people that shall be born, whom the Lord hath made";
made them his people, created them in Christ, and formed them for
himself.
