Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 22:27

27. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

(i. e.) All Nations from one end of the World to the other. So this is an evident Prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles to the knowledge of God and Christ by the Gospel, and Consequently a clear Proof, that this Psalm doth directly and immediately speak of Christ; to whom alone, and not to David, this and divers other passages of it, do manifestly belong.

It is not particularly expressed, what they should remember, because there were several things, that should and would be remembred by them; which were likely to occasion their turning to the Lord. They shall remember their former and manifold Wickedness, with Grief and Shame, and Fear, and particularly their sin and folly, in worshipping dead and impotent Idols, that never did nor could do them, either good or hurt. They shall remember that God who did make lively Impressions upon their Minds, which yet they had in great measure blotted out and forgotten, but now by the preaching of the Gospel they shall be revived. They shall remember their great and manifold Obligations to God, which they had quite forgotten, his Patience and Goodness in sparing them so long, in the midst of all their Imp[illegible: 1+ letters]eties, and in revealing his Gospel to them, and giving his Son for them. They shall remember the gracious Words and glorious Works of Christ, and what he did, and suffered for them; which possibly divers of them had been Eye-and-Ear witnesses of in Iudea (although, with the unbelieving Iews, they despised and misconstrued them,) and others had heard the fame, and tydings of them.

Unto the only true God, and unto Jesus Christ, to whom this Name of Iehovah is oft times ascribed in Scripture.

Heb. all the Families. Which is not to be understood strictly, of every particular Person and Family, but of all sorts, and of great numbers of them; as such universal Phrases are very frequently taken in Scripture.

Marginal references: Psal. 2. 8. & 72. 11. & 86. 9.