6. The purpose here declared, in its execution, involves their
overthrow.
Yet--literally, "and," in an adversative sense.
I have set--anointed, or firmly placed, with allusion in the
Hebrew to "casting an image in a mould." The sense is not
materially varied in either case.
my king--appointed by Me and for Me
(Nu 27:18).
upon my holy hill of Zion--Zion, selected by David as the abode of
the ark and the seat of God's visible residence
(1Ki 8:1);
as also David, the head of the Church and nation, and type of Christ,
was called holy, and the Church itself came to be thus named
(Ps 9:11; 51:18; 99:2;
Isa 8:18; 18:7,
&c.).
JFB.
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