Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Psalms
Book: Psalms
Chapter: 53
Overview:
The corruption of
Man By nature.
- This psalm is almost the same as the 14th. The scope of it is
to convince us of our sins.
God,
By the psalmist, here shows us
how bad we are, and proves this
By his own certain knowledge. He
speaks terror to persecutors, the worst of sinners. He speaks
encouragement to
God's persecuted people. How comes it that men
are
So bad? Because there is
No fear of
God before their eyes.
Men's bad practices flow from their bad principles; if they
profess to know
God, yet in
Works, because in thoughts, they
deny him. See the folly of
Sin; he is a fool, in the account of
God, whose
Judgment we are sure is right, that harbours such
corrupt thoughts. And see the
Fruit of
Sin; to what it brings
men, when their hearts are hardened through the deceitfulness of
Sin. See also the
Faith of the saints, and their
Hope and power
as to the cure of this great evil. There will come a
Saviour, a
great
Salvation, a
Salvation from
Sin.
God will save his
Church
from its enemies. He will save all believers from their own
sins, that they may not be led
Captive By them, which will be
Everlasting joy to them. From this work the
Redeemer had his
name
Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins, Mt
1:21.