Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty (comp. Psalms 48:2; Lamentations 2:15; 1 Macc. 2:12). God hath shined; i.e. has shown himself in his dazzling radiance. The psalmist, however, does not mean to announce a material, but a spiritual, fact.
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Psalms 50:2
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