The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 18:46-50

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This glorious and triumphant psalm concludes with a solemn ascription of praise, blessing, and thanksgiving to Almighty God—partly recapitulation of what has preceded (Psalms 18:47, Psalms 18:48), partly additional (Psalms 18:46, Psalms 18:49, Psalms 18:50).

Terms of praise are accumulated, and the whole is made to culminate in a Messianic burst, where David is swallowed up in his "Seed;" and the "Anointed King" presented to our view is rather the antitype than the type—rather Christ Jesus than the son of Jesse.

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