Power + idea = angel. Idea—power = man, or Prometheus. Ps. LXVIII. V. 34. _Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel_: _his worship and strength is in the clouds_. The “clouds,” in the symbolical language of the Scriptures, mean the events and course of things, seemingly effects of human will or chance, but overruled by Providence. Ps. LXXII. This psalm admits no other interpretation but of Christ, as the Jehovah incarnate. In any other sense it would be a specimen of more than Persian or Moghul hyperbole, and bombast, of which there is no other instance in Scripture, and which no Christian would dare to attribute to an inspired writer. We know, too, that the elder Jewish Church ranked it among the Messianic Psalms.—N.B. The word in St. John and the Name of the Most High in the Psalms are equivalent terms. V. 1. _Give the king thy judgments_, _O God_; _and thy righteousness unto the king’s son_. God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, the only begotten, the Son of God and God, King of Kings, and the Son of the King of Kings! Ps. LXXIV. V. 2. _O think upon thy congregation_, _whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old_. The Lamb sacrificed from the beginning of the world, the God-Man, the Judge, the self-promised Redeemer to Adam in the garden! V. 15. _Thou smotest the heads of the Leviathan in pieces_; _and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wilderness_. Does this allude to any real tradition? The Psalms appears to have been composed shortly before the captivity of Judah. Ps. LXXXII. vv. 6–7. The reference which our Lord made to these mysterious verses gives them an especial interest. The first apostasy, the fall of the angels, is, perhaps, intimated. Ps. LXXXVII. I would fain understand this Psalm; but first I must collate it word by word with the original Hebrew. It seems clearly Messianic. Ps. LXXXVIII. Vv. 10–12. _Dost thou show wonders among the dead_, _or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee_? _&c._ Compare Ezekiel xxxvii. Ps. CIV. I think the Bible version might with advantage be substituted for this, which in some parts is scarcely intelligible. V. 6.—_the waters stand in the hills_. No; _stood above the mountains_. The reference is to the Deluge. Ps. CV. V. 3.—_Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord_. If even to seek the Lord be joy, what will it be to find him? Seek me, O Lord, that I may be found by thee! Ps. CX. V. 2.—_The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion_; (saying) _Rule_, &c. V. 3. Understand—“Thy people shall offer themselves willingly in the day of conflict in holy clothing, in their best array, in their best arms and accoutrements. As the dew from the womb of the morning, in number and brightness like dew-drops, so shall be thy youth, or the youth of thee, the young volunteer warriors.” V. 5. “He shall shake,” concuss, _concutiet reges die iræ suæ_.