Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 2:8

8. Ask of me and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance , and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy Possession.

Claim or demand it of me, as thy right by my promise, and thy birth and purchase.

To be possessed and enjoyed by thee in a manner of an Inheritance, to wit, constantly, surely, and perpetually.

Either 1. the whole land of Canaan from one end of it to the other, as this Phrase is used Psal. 61. 2. and 72. 8. which is but a very narrow sence, and that was but a very small Kingdom, and no way agreeable to those magnificent expressions here used. Or rather, the whole world, not only the Jewish Nation, but the Gentiles also, as this phrase is almost universally used in the old Testament, as Psal. 19. 4▪ and 22. 28. and 46. 10. and 65. 5. Isa. 40. 28: and 45. 22, &c. And so these words declare the great amplitude of the Kingdom of the Messiah.

Marginal references: Psal. [illegible: 1+ letters]2. 8.