Psalms 114

Ver. 3. From the rising &c.] Signifying, either from morning to evening, or from east to west. Merrick.

Psalms 114:6

6. Who humbleth himself &c.] Highly as our Lord is exalted above this system, above this heaven and this earth of ours, yet He condescendeth to regard every thing that passes here, and to make us, the inhabitants of this lower world, and, for our sakes, all the other creatures in it, the objects of his peculiar care, and paternal love. Bp. Horne. Such is God’s mercy to the poor sons of Adam in their fallen state, that from the lowest and most abject condition, from the pollutions of sin, and from the dishonour of the grave, He raiseth them to righteousness and holiness, to glory and immortality; He setteth them on high, with the inhabitants of the heavenly Jerusalem, “with the princes of his people,” the leaders of the armies above, with angels and archangels before his throne. What is the exaltation of the meanest beggar from a dunghill to an earthly diadem, when compared with that of human nature from the grave to the throne of God! Here is honour worthy our ambition; honour, after which all are alike invited to aspire: which all may obtain who strive worthily and lawfully; and of which, when once obtained, nothing can ever deprive the possessors. Bp. Horne. Psalm CXIV. This is another of the Psalms appointed by our Church to be read on Easter-day. It celebrates the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, and the miracles wrought for that people, prefiguring the redemption of our nature from sin and death, and the