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Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 87:6

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Psalms87:6

6 The LORD shall count when he writeth up the people , that this man was born there. Sclah.

Or, his people. So it is onely a defect of the Pronoun his which is very frequent and easily understood out of the foregoing word, the Lord. The sence is, when God, the Maker and Governor of this City shall take a survey of all his Citizens and Subjects. It is an allusion to Princes or Governors of Cities that use to write and keep a Register of all their people. Hence holy Men and true Israelites are said to be written among the living in Ierusalem, Isa. 4. 3. Or, in the writing of the house of Israel, Ezek. 13. 9.

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