Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 45:16

16. In stead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth .

Having directed his Speech to the Bride, he now returns to the Bridegroom, as may be gathered both from the Hebrew words, which are of the Masculine Gender; and from the next Verse, which unquestionably belongs unto him; Yet so that he supposeth the Bride to be concernd and partakes with him in the Priviledge here mentioned, and the Children to be common to them both. And therefore this Verse and Psalm cannot be understood of Solomon, and his Marriage with Pharaoh's Daughter, because he had no Children by her, and but very few by all his Wives and Concubines; and his Children were so far from exceeding their Parents in the largeness of their Dominions, or being made Princes in all the Earth, as is here said, that they enjoyed but a small part of their Fathers Dominions, and that with many Tribulations and but for a short time. But this was most truly and fully accomplished in Christ: who instead of his Fathers of the Jewish Nation, from whom he descended, and by whom he was forsaken and rejected (which here seems to be implyed, and elsewhere is expressly affi[illegible: 1+ letters]med) had a numerous Posterity, of Gentile Christians of all the Nations of the Earth, which here and elsewhere are called Princes, and Kings, because of their great Power with God and with Men, because they subdued a very great part of the World, to the Obedience of Christ. and ruled them in his Name and stead.

Marginal references: 1 Pet. 2 9. Rev. 1. 6. & 5. 10. & 20. 6.