O come, let us worship and bow down
Before him who is the Rock of our salvation, the great God and
great King, the Creator of the ends of the earth, the proper
object of all religious worship and adoration: Christ is to be
worshipped with every part of external worship under the New
Testament dispensation; psalms and songs of praise are to be sung
unto him; prayer is to be made unto him; the Gospel is to be
preached, and ordinances to be administered, in his name; and
likewise with all internal worship, in the exercise of every
grace on him, as faith, hope, and love: see ( Psalms 45:11
) ,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
both in a natural and spiritual sense: Christ is the Maker of us
as creatures, of our souls and bodies; we have our natural being
from him, and are supported in it by him; and he is the Maker of
us as new creatures; we are his workmanship, created in him, and
by him; and therefore he should be worshipped by us, ( Ephesians
2:10 ) ( Psalms 100:3
Psalms
100:4 ) . Kimchi distinguishes these several gestures,
expressed by the different words here used; the first, we render
worship, signifies, according to him, the prostration of the
whole body on the ground, with the hands and legs stretched out;
the second, a bowing of the head, with part of the body; and the
third, a bending of the knees on the ground; but though each of
these postures and gestures have been, and may be, used in
religious worship, yet they seem not so much to design them
themselves, and the particular use of them, as worship itself,
which is in general intended by them.