Psalm 24:5

Verse 5. He shall receive the blessing; as before, "Thou shalt set him to be a blessing." Ps 21:6. His name is never without blessing. In him shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. On the mount of his beatitudes, on the heavenly Mount Sion, crowned as "the Son of the Blessed." From the Lord; even "the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Ephesians 1:3 . Isaac Williams.

Verse 5. He shall receive ... righteousness. As for our own righteousness which we have without him, Esay telleth us, "it is a defiled cloth;" and St. Paul, that it is but "dung." Two very homely comparisons, but they be the Holy Ghost's own; yet nothing so homely as in the original, where they be so odious, as what manner of defiled cloth, or what kind of dung, we have not dared to translate. Our own then being no better, we are driven to seek for it elsewhere. "He shall receive his righteousness," saith the prophet; and "the gift of righteousness," saith the apostle. Philippians 3:8-9 Romans 5:17 . It is then another, to be given us, and to be received by us, which we must seek for. And whither shall we go for it? Job alone dispatches this point Job 15:15 4:18 25:5. Not to the heavens or stars, they are unclean in his sight. Not to the saints, for in them he found folly. Not to the angels, for neither in them found he steadfastness. Now, if none of these will serve, we see a necessary reason why Jehovah must be a part of this name, "the LORD our righteousness." Jeremiah 23:6 . Lancelot Andrewes.

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 4-5. Character manifested and favour received.

Verse 5. (second clause). The good man receiving righteousness and needing salvation, or the evangelical meaning of apparently legal passages.