Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 21:6

6. For thou hast made him most blessed for ever : thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance .

Heb. thou hast set (or, made, as this Verb is used, Psal. 40. 5. and 89. 42. and 91. 9. Lam. 3. 45.) him Blessings, (e. i.) Either, 1. The Author or Instrument of manifold Blessings to the World, and especially to thy People: which David was in a good measure, but Christ much more truly and eminently. Although this may not seem very suitable to the Context, which only speaks of the Blessing conferred by God upon this King, and not at all of the Blessings flowing from him to others. Or 2. The great example of all Blessings, whom the Israelites in all Ages shall propound to themselves, in all their Forms and Pronunciations of Blessings, They shall say, God make thee as blessed as this King▪ Either David or the Messias. Compare Gen. 12. 2 and 48. 20. or rather most Blessed, as we translate it, the abstract Form, and the plural Number being here used emphatically, as they commonly are, as Ezek. 34. 26. Psal. 5. 10. and 19. 10. and 35. 6. to Note a man in whom all sorts of Blessings are united and met together, filled with Blessings, and as it were a man of Blessings, made up altogether of Blessings, as Christ upon a like Reason was called a man of Sorrows, Isa. 53. 3. And possibly the Word Man, may be understood here, as it is in many other places, as I have shewed before, and the place rendred thus, Thou hast made him a Man of Blessings.

Of which see on v. 4.

To wit, smiling upon him, as it must necessarily be understood from the foregoing Words, (i. e.) By thy Grace and Favour manifested, and imparted to his Soul, and by the Effects of it, in saving him from all his Enemies and Calamities.

Marginal references: Heb. s[illegible: 1+ letters]t him to be Blessings.; Heb. gladded him with joys.