Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of
Zion.
] Or, "behold, I have set" so Noldius by Zion is meant the church
of God, especially under the Gospel dispensation; see ( Hebrews
12:22 ) ( Revelation
14:1 ) ; so called, because, as Zion was, it is the object of
God's love and choice, the place of his habitation and residence;
where divine worship is observed, and the word and ordinances of
God administered; and where the Lord distributes his blessings of
grace; and which is the perfection of beauty, through Christ's
comeliness put upon her; and will be the joy of the whole earth:
it is strongly fortified by the power and grace of God, and is
immovable and impregnable, being built on Christ, the Rock of
ages; and, like Zion, it is an high hill, eminent and visible;
and more especially will be so when the mountain of the Lord's
house is established upon the tops of the mountains: and it is an
Holy One, through the presence and worship of God in it, and the
sanctification of his Spirit. And over this hill, the church,
Christ is King; he is King of saints, and is acknowledged by
them; and it is for their great safety and security, their joy,
comfort, and happiness, that he is set over them: he is called by
his Father "my King", because he who is King of Zion is his
Anointed, as in ( Psalms 2:2 ) ; and his
Son, his begotten Son, as in ( Psalms 2:7 ) ; his
firstborn, his fellow and equal; and because he is his as King;
not that he is King over him, for his Father is greater than he,
as man and Mediator, or with respect to his office capacity, in
which he is to be considered as King; and therefore he is rather
King under him: but he is a King of his setting up, and therefore
called his; he has appointed him his kingdom, given him the
throne of his father David; put a crown of pure gold on his head,
and crowned him with glory and honour, and the sceptre of
righteousness in his hand, and has given him a name above every
name. He did not make himself a King, nor was he made so by men;
but he was set up, or "anointed" by God the Father, as the word
F7 here used signifies; and may refer
either to the inauguration of Christ into his kingly office, and
his investiture with it from all eternity, as in ( Proverbs
8:23 ) , where the same word is used as here; and anointing
with oil being a ceremony performed at the instalment of kings
into their office, the phrase is used for the thing itself: or
rather, since Christ was anointed with the Holy Ghost in the
human nature, at his incarnation and baptism, and especially at
the time of his ascension, when he was made or declared to be
LORD and CHRIST; this may refer to the time when he, as the
ascended Lord and King, gave gifts to men, to his apostles, and
qualified them in an extraordinary manner to carry his Gospel
into the Gentile world, and spread it there, as they did with
success; whereby his kingdom became more visible and glorious, to
the great vexation of the Jews; for, in spite of all their
opposition, Christ being set by his Father King over his church
and people, continued so, and his kingdom was every day more and
more enlarged, to their great mortification.