Psalms 80:1-19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Verses 1-19

LXXX. Then and Now. The Messianic Hope.— The Ps. depicts Judah’ s forlorn condition, first directly ( Psalms 80:1-Judges :) and then under the figure of a vine ( Psalms 80:8-:). It is divided into strophes by the refrain in Psalms 80:3; Psalms 80:7; Psalms 80:19. (In Psalms 80:3 insert “ of hosts” (LXX) as in Psalms 80:7; Psalms 80:19.) Probably also the refrain has fallen out after Psalms 80:13.

Psalms 80:1 c. A rhetorical reminiscence of the time when the Ark ( 1 Samuel 4:4, 2 Samuel 6:2) represented Yahweh and was carried out to battle.

Psalms 80:2 . The Psalmist looks forward to the recovery of the northern tribes and their union with Judah before the advent of the Messianic age.

Psalms 80:4 . Translate, “ Wilt thou fume at the prayer?”

Psalms 80:5 . Read with LXX, “ fed us,” “ given us.”

Psalms 80:6 . strife: i.e. an object of contention, such as, e.g., Poland or the Italian States have been to the greater powers.— among themselves: read, “ at us.”

Psalms 80:8-1 Kings : . The vine in its glory. For the allegory cf. Genesis 49:22, Isaiah 5:1-Judges :, Jeremiah 2:21.

Psalms 80:10 . cedars of God: i.e. so great that they are in a special sense due to Divine action.

Psalms 80:11 gives the ideal boundaries of the Davidic kingdom, viz. the Mediterranean and the Euphrates.

Psalms 80:12 f. The vine in its abandonment.

Psalms 80:14-: . Prayer for revival.

Psalms 80:15 . stock: a word of uncertain meaning.

Psalms 80:15 b is the original, Psalms 80:17 b is an inferior variant. The context shows that the “ son of man whom thou madest so strong for thyself” is primarily Israel personified.

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Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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