Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:10
Every beast of the forest is mine - Can ye suppose that ye are laying me under obligation to you, when ye present me with a part of my own property? read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:12
The world is mine, and the fullness thereof - Ye cannot, therefore, give me any thing that is not my own. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:13
Will I eat the flesh of bulls - Can ye be so simple as to suppose that I appointed such sacrifices for my own gratification? All these were significative of a spiritual worship, and of the sacrifice of that Lamb of God which, in the fullness of time, was to take away, in an atoning manner, the sin of the world. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:14
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High - זבח zebach , "sacrifice unto God, אלהים Elohim , the תודה todah , thank-offering," which was the same as the sin-offering, viz. a bullock, or a ram, without blemish; only there were, in addition, "unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; and cakes of fine flour mingled with oil and fried," Leviticus 7:12 . And pay thy vows - נדריך nedareycha , "thy vow-offering, to the... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:16
But unto the wicked - The bloodthirsty priests, proud Pharisees, and ignorant scribes of the Jewish people. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction - All these rejected the counsel of God against themselves; and refused to receive the instructions of Christ. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:18
When thou sawest a thief - Rapine, adulteries, and adulterous divines, were common among the Jews in our Lord's time. The Gospels give full proof of this. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:21
These things hast thou done - My eye has been continually upon you, though my judgments have not been poured out: and because I was silent, thou didst suppose I was such as thyself; but I will reprove thee, etc. I will visit for these things. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:22
Now consider this - Ye have forgotten your God, and sinned against him. He has marked down all your iniquities, and has them in order to exhibit against you. Beware, therefore, lest he tear you to pieces, when there is none to deliver; for none can deliver you but the Christ you reject. And how can ye escape, if ye neglect so great a salvation? read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:8
I will not reprove thee - I do not mean to find fault with you for not offering sacrifices; you have offered them, they have been continually before me: but you have not offered them in the proper way. read more