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Psalms 68:20

Psalms 68:20

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

[He that is] our God,.... Or "God for us" ; is on our side; and is the mighty God, able to save to the uttermost;[is] the God of salvation; or "God for salvations" ; for the obtaining of them for his people, and giving them to them, even of every kind;and unto God the Lord [belong] the issues from death; deliverance from it; Christ has abolished it, and him that had the power of it; has delivered himself from it, and will deliver all his people from it, though they become subject to it, as well as from eternal death; for he has the keys of hell and death in his hands.

Some render the words, "to God the Lord belong the issues", or "ways unto death" ; he has various ways of bringing persons to death, of destroying his and his people's enemies; and so Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi interpret it; though the following words seem to be opposed to these: the Heathens had a notion that the power of death belonged to God; hence they had a deity called the god of death, "Dites" .

wnl lah "Deus nobis, vel est nobis", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator. twevwml la "Deus ad salutes", Pagninus, Montanus, &c. twauwt twml "ad mortem exitus", Pagninus, Montanus; "mille viae laethi", Lucan.

Macrob. in Somn. Scip. l. 1. c.

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