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Psalms 83:18

Psalms 83:18

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

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah,.... Or, "that thou, thy name alone is Jehovah" , a self-existent Being, the Being of beings, the everlasting I AM, the immutable God; for this name is expressive of the being, eternity, and unchangeableness of God, who is, and was, and is to come, invariably the same, Re 1:4 which is to be understood not to the exclusion of the Son or Spirit, who are with the Father the one Jehovah, De 6:4, and to whom this name is given; see , compared with compared with Ac 28:25, but to the exclusion of all nominal and fictitious deities, the gods of the Heathens; and the being and perfections of God are known by the judgments he executes, ,art the most High over all the earth; or,and that thou art, &c.

, being the Maker and the Possessor of it, and the sovereign Lord of its inhabitants, doing in it what seems good in his sight; see , for the accents require two propositions in the text: the Heathens give the title of most high to their supreme deity: the Targum is,"over all the inhabitants of the earth.'

' Kmv hta yk "quod nomen tuum", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus. "Quod tu, inquam, sis altissimus", Michaelis. Pansan. Boeotica sive, l. 9. p. 555.

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