Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 78:65
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Psalms78:65
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep , and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine .
For God by giving up not onely his people but his Ark to the contempt and insolency of the Philistins might seem to be asleep and insensible of his own honour and interest, till by a sudden and unexpected blow he convinced his enemies of the contrary.
Whose spirit and courage is revived and inflamed by a liberal draught of generous wine. Which comparison is no more injurious to the Divine Majesty than that of a thiefs coming in the night, to which Christ's second coming is compared, 1 Thess. 5. 2.
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