诗篇 8:3-4 RCUVSS

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:3-4

Psalms 8:3-4 These words express a conviction which lies at the root of all natural as well as all revealed religion, a conviction which may be regarded as a distinctive feature, which separates that conception of God's nature which is properly a religious one from that which is merely a philosophical speculation, a conception without which indeed there can be no real belief in God at all. I. The root and groundwork of all religion is the impulse which leads men to pray. In this is found the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:3-6

Psalms 8:3-6 I. True greatness consists, not in weight and extension, but in intellectual power and moral worth. When the Psalmist looked up to the heavens, he was at first overwhelmed with a sense of his own littleness; but, on second thoughts, David bethought himself that this was an entire misconception of the matter, and that man could not be inferior to the heavens, for God had, in point of fact, made him only a little lower than the angels "than the Elohim," is the word in the Hebrew.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:4

Psalms 8:4 I. The thought which lies behind this text is of far deeper intensity now than when it was first uttered by the awe-stricken Psalmist. The author of this eighth Psalm could have had but a faint conception of the scale of creation compared with that at which we are now arriving. What is man in presence of the overwhelming display of creative power? II. But there is another consideration which helps to impress the thought of our insignificance. We cannot but speculate as to the ends... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:4-5

Psalms 8:4-5 Man stands on the frontier of two worlds. There is a supernatural sphere, and man's connection with it is his glory, his endowments from it his highest treasures. "Made a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honour." I. What then is that connection? Can the supernatural world unfold itself before man? The answer is, Most certainly it can. (1) God has laid bare to man the splendid vision by prophecy. Prophecy is God's revelation by word. Wherever any spiritual truth... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:1-9

Psalms 8:1-9 is to the chief musician upon Gittith. Now Gittith means wine press, and so you have the thought of the harvest in the sense, actually, of judgment. The time of harvest has come.O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! ( Psalms 8:1 )The first Lord, all capital letters, signifying that it is a translation of the Hebrew name for God. That name which we do not know exactly how to pronounce. Perhaps it is Yahweh; perhaps it is Jehovah. Nobody really knows for sure.... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 8:1-9

Psalms 8:1 . How excellent is thy name. See note on Proverbs 18:10. Psalms 8:2 . Thou hast ordained strength. For some reason the LXX read αινον , praise. So our Saviour, it would seem, cited this text, Matthew 21:16, when the children sung hosannas to him in the temple. Perhaps David made this psalm presently after his anointing, and when keeping his father’s flock by night, where he had the fairest opportunity for the study of astronomy. Psalms 8:4 . What is man. Hebrews Enosh,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 8:1-9

Psalms 8:1-9How excellent is Thy name in all the earth! David’s poetical sensitivenessIn all probability this Psalm is the first, or at all events one of the very first, David ever wrote.It breathes the spirit of those lonely nights which he must so often have passed keeping watch over his father’s sheep on the wild hills of Bethlehem. To a lad of his strong poetical temperament, the glory of the Syrian sunset, the gradual assembling of the stars, as of an innumerable flock in the silent... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 8:3-4

Psalms 8:3-4When I consider Thy heavens.ConsideringThat is what people will not do. They are thoughtless, superficial, frivolous; they do not sit down and put things together and add them up, and ask the meaning of the poetry of the total.1. “When I consider”--I become a new man, much larger, nobler, saintlier. What does consider mean? I wonder if any six men in any audience could tell the meaning, etymological and historical and parabolical, of consider. It is a word which everybody knows. It... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 8:3

Psa 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; Ver. 3. When I consider thy heavens ] And that men should be much in this consideration, both the bolt-upright figure of their bodies may admonish them, and also that fifth muscle which God hath set in man’s eye (whereas other creatures have but four) to draw it upward, Ut eius auxilio coelum intueremur, saith the anatomist, that by the help thereof we might consider the heavens... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 8:4

Psa 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Ver. 4. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? ] Sorry, sickly man, a mass of mortalities, a map of miseries, a mixture or compound of dirt and sin? And yet God is mindful of him; he not only takes care of him in an ordinary way, as he doth other creatures, but singularly attendeth and affecteth him, as a father doth his dearest child. He is Divini irigenii cura, saith one; he is the end of all... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:3-4

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:3-6

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:4

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:4-5

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 8:1-9

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 8:1-9

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 8:1-9

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 8:3-4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 8:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 8:4

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