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our Lord's, victory over his enemies ; and this 

 includes the whole period, from his ascension to 

 the time, not yet arrived, of the fulfilling of 

 the Gentiles. The sequel alludes to the re-mar- 

 riage that is, to the restoration of the converted 

 Jews to the bosom of the true church. 



" * Thou art fairer than the children of men. ' 

 Though we have no account in the gospels of 

 our Saviour's person, yet it is evident, from 

 many circumstances, that there must have been 

 a peculiar dignity in his appearance. But it was 

 the sanctity of his manners; his perfect obedience 

 to the will of God ; the vast scope of his mind, 

 which comprehended all knowledge ; his power 

 to resist all temptation, and to despise shame and 

 to endure pain and death, to which that expression 

 alludes this was the beauty with which he was 

 adorned beyond the sons of men. 



" Full of grace are thy lips.' This is put 

 figuratively, for that perfect doctrine which he 

 delivered, and which, if sincerely adopted, was 

 to sustain the contrite, to console the afflicted, 

 and to reclaim the guilty. 



" 'The king's enemies' are the wicked pas- 

 sions of mankind, against whom he wages a 

 spiritual war; and, the 'sword and arrows,' 

 St. Paul tells us, mean ' the sword of God.' 



(i The seventh and eighth verses shew the 

 King seated on the throne of his mediatorial 

 kingdom-, where he is addressed as God, whose 



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