2. This verse records a past deliverance, and is an instance of the way in
which experience should be employed to reassure our faith in times of trial. Whenthe wicked. It is a hopeful sign for us when the wicked hate us; if our
foes were godly people it would be a sore sorrow, but as for the wicked their
hatred is better than their love. Even mine enemies and my foes. There
were many of them, they were of different sorts, but they were unanimous in
mischief and hearty in hatred. Came upon me. Advanced to the attack,
leaping upon the victim like a lion upon its prey. To eat up my flesh.
The enemies of our souls yield no quarter, and ought to have none in return.
David was in the grip of numerous, powerful, and cruel enemies, and yet observe
his perfect safety and their utter discomfiture! They stumbled and fell.
God’s breath blew them off their legs. There were stones in the way which they
never reckoned on. Our Lord in Gethsemane, when those who came to take him went
backward and fell to the ground, was a prophetic representative of all
wrestling believers who, rising from their knees, throw their foes down by the
power of faith.
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