ARGUMENT

ARG. THOMAS. That CHRIST will cast the wicked to be consumed in everlasting fire. The Prophet speaks to the FATHER concerning CHRIST the King; and of the kingdom of CHRIST, and the rejection of the Jews.

VEN. BEDE. This Psalm relates first to the Incarnation of the SAVIOUR, then to the deeds of His Godhead, that thou mayest openly confess one and the same CHRIST to be the SON of the Virgin Mother and of GOD the FATHER. In the first place the Prophet speaks to the FATHER of the LORD’S Incarnation; in the next he describes His divers virtues and glories; and how, by His Passion, He hath attained to the height of all honour. Then, turning to the LORD, he asks, after the manner of a petitioner, that those things may take place in the judgment which he knows will come to pass.

SYRIAC PSALTER. A petition for those things which may help the just man.