Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 72:16

16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains , the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon , and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth ▪

Which intimates the small beginnings of this Kingdom[illegible: 1+ letters] and therefore doth not agree to S[illegible: 1+ letters], whose Kingdom was in a manner as large at the beginning of his Reign, as at the End; but it exactly agrees to Christ and hi[illegible: 1+ letters] Kingdom, [illegible: 1 word]. 13. 31, 32.

Sown in the Earth.

In the most Barr[illegible: 1+ letters]n grounds; and therefore this was an Evidence of extraordinary and prodigious Fertility.

It shall [illegible: 1+ letters]ield such abundance of Corn, that the Ears being thick and high and full of Corn, shall, when they are shaken with the Wind, make a noise not unlike that which the tops of the Trees of [illegible: 1 word] sometimes make upon the like occasion. Which Expressions, as well as many others of the like Nature in the Prophets, being applied to Christ, are to be understood in a spiritual Sence, of the great and happy Success of the Preaching of the Gospel.

The Citizens of Ierusalem, which are here Synedochically put for the Subjects of this Kingdom.

Shall both encrease in number, that there may be mouths to receive the Meat provided, and enjoy great Prosperity and Happiness.