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Verse 11

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory honour, and power ,.... The Alexandrian copy, and some others, the Complutensian edition, the Vulgate Latin version, and all the Oriental ones, read, "thou art worthy, O Lord, and our God, to receive"; that is, to receive the acknowledgment and ascription of glory, honour, and power; for otherwise God cannot be said to receive these from his creatures, than by their confessing and declaring that they belong unto him: and that for the reasons following,

for thou hast created all things ; the whole universe, the heavens, the earth, and sea, and all that in them are:

and for thy pleasure they are and were created ; God is the first cause, and the last end of all things; by his power they are made, and according to his will, and for his own glory, and therefore is worthy of such a doxology; see Proverbs 16:4 . What is here said is contrary to a notion imbibed by the Jews F26 Zohar in Exod. fol. 6. 3. & Tzeror Hammor, fol. 109. 1. & 161. 3. , that the world was not created but for the sake of the Israelites: and elsewhere F1 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 2. they say,

"the world was not created but for David; and one says for Moses; and Rabbi Jochanan says for the Messiah;'

which last is truest.

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