And moreover that he may set the kingdom of Christ before our eyes in its sweetest appearance, the Psalmist describes him as having palaces and houses of ivory; a queen, and her attendant virgins; and sons and daughters. All these things are to be understood of the spiritual kingdom of Christ and the church, where Christ is a King, powerful, wise, just, gracious, and victorious; and moreover, a conqueror triumphant; and also rejoicing, preserving, comforting and enriching his own, against sin, the law, and death, &c. And David here clearly foretels that the law of the Old Testament should be abrogated. “Hearken (says he) O daughter, and incline thine ear, forget also thy father’s house: (here he seems to glance at the synagogue): so shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty, and thou shalt worship him;” showing, that there is no true God out of Christ; and ascribing unto Christ truly divine honour; namely, that of the first and great precept,—that is, adoration. And in the sixth and seventh verses, he plainly calls him God: thus making him an eternal king, the foundation of whose throne is in righteousness: who justifies all that believe in him, and takes away sin, and destroys death and hell. And no one can be an eternal king that dies not, but he that is truly and naturally God!—of which we have spoken at large elsewhere, in our more full commentary on the 45th Psalm. PSALM XLVI. _The confidence which the church hath in God.—An exhortation to behold it._ To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah. A song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; _Though_ the waters thereof roar, _and_ be troubled, _though_ the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. _There is_ a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy _place_ of the tabernacle of the most high. God _is_ in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, _and that_ right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. The LORD of hosts _is_ with us; the God of Jacob _is_ our refuge. Selah. Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I _am_ God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The LORD of hosts _is_ with us; the God of Jacob _is_ our refuge. Selah.