Psalms 110:3

"Thy people offer themselves willingly

In the day of thy power, in holy array:

Out of the womb of the morning

Thou hast the dew of thy youth."

"Thy people offer themselves willingly." Christ's rule will be over those people alone who willingly and wholeheartedly submit themselves to his authority.

"Out of the womb of the morning, ..." As Rawlinson said, "The intention of this last clause is very doubtful."[1] Delitzsch rendered the passage thus:

"Out of the womb of the morning's dawn

Cometh the dew of thy young."[2]

"Some understand it of Messiah himself, applying it to his perpetual youth; but the larger number interpret it of Messiah's army."[3] The quotation which we take to be Rawlinson's understanding of the passage is as follows:

"As dew out of the early morning dawn, descending by a silent, mysterious birth from the star-lit heavens, so comes to Messiah his mighty host of followers."[4]