Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 16:8

8. * I have set the LORD always before me : because * he is at my right hand , I shall not be moved .

(i. e.) I have always presented him to my mind, as my Rule and Scope, as my Witness and Judge, as my Patron and Protector in the discharge of my Office, and in all my Actions. Hitherto David seems to have spoken in his own Person, and with special respect to himself, but now he seems to have been transported by an higher Inspiration of the Spirit of Prophecy, and to be carried above himself, and to have an Eye to the man Christ Jesus, who is and was the end of the Law, and the great Scope of all the Prophets, and to speak of himself only as a Type of Christ, and with more special respect unto Christ, in whom this and the following Verses were much more truly and fully accomplished than in himself. Christ as man did always set his Fathers will and Glory before him, as he himself oft declareth, especially in St. Iohn's Gospel.

To wit, to strengthen me, for the right hand is the chief seat of a Man's strength, and Instrument of Action, to Protect, assist and Comfort me, as this Phrase signifies, Psal. 109. 31. and 110. 5. And this assistance of God was necessary to Christ as man.

Or, removed, either from the discharge of my Duty, or from the attainment of that Glory and Happiness which is prepared for me. Though the Archers shoot grievously at me, and both men and Devils seek my Destruction, and God sets himself against me as an Enemy, withdrawing his favour from me and filling me with deadly sorrows, through the Sence of his anger; yet I do not despair but am assured that God will deliver me out of all my Distresses.

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