Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 45:10

10. Hearken , O daughter , and consider, and incline thine ear : forget also thine own people, and th[illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1+ letters]ers house .

These Wor[illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1+ letters]poken; Either, 1. In the Person of the Attendants up[illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1 word] Bride or Bridegroom. Or, 2. Of the Bridegroom. [illegible: 1 word] rather, 3. By the Prophet himself: who having hitherto spoken to the Bridegroom, or King, now addresseth his Speech to the Bride or Queen.

So he c[illegible: 1+ letters]lls her, Partly, in token of his Respect and Affection to her, and Partly, because she is supposed to be young and beautiful, and therefore the Prophet speaks like an Elder and graver Person, and as her spiritual Father and Counsellor.

He useth several Words, signifying the same thing, to shew his serious and Vehement desire of her good, and the great importance and difficulty of Practising the following Counsel.

Not simply, but Comparatively, so far as they oppose or hinder the discharge of thy Duty to thy Husband, or so far as they are Corrupted in Doctrine or Worship, or Practise. He alludes to the Law of Matrimony, Gen. 2. 24. and to what Solomon did say, or should have said to Pharaohs Daughter, to [illegible: 1 word] her from the Idolatry and other Vices of her Fathers house. But this, as well as the rest of the Psalm, respects Christ, and is a seasonable and necessary Advice, and command to all Persons that desire to come to Christ, whether Iews or Gentiles, that they would cast off all their inveterate Error[illegible: 1+ letters] and Prejudices, all those Superstitious or Idolatrous, or wicked Opinions or Practices, which they had received by long and antient, and therefore venerable Tradition from their Fathers, and intirely give up themselves to Christ to be instructed by him▪ and to receive his Doctrine, though it would seem new to them. And by these Words he seems to intimate and tacitly to foretel that not onely the Superstitious inventions and Traditions of Men, but even the legal Worship appointed by Moses, and delivered to them from their Parents, successively for many Generations should be relinquished▪ by the believing Iews, and abolished by Christ's coming.