John Trapp on Psalms 27:1

PSAL. XXVII.

Verſ. 1. The Lord is my light] That is, my comfort and direction, he that diſſolveth all my clouds of serrours within, and troubles without. To theſe all hee oppoſeth Gods All-ſufficiency, as making for him, and as being All in all unto him, Light, Salvation, Strength of Life, what not? and there-hence his full aſſurance; and ſuch a maſculine magnanimity as feareth not the power of men and Devils, be they who they will, and do what they can. Animo magno nihil eſt magnum. When a man can out of this conſideration, God is my light (inthings of the minde) and my Salvation, (in things of the body, as Aben-Ezra expoundeth it) contemn and reckon all things elſe as matters of ſmall moment, it ſhews he hath in truth apprehended God: and this is true holy magnanimity.

The Lord is the ſtrength of my life] He that keeps life and ſoul together, ſaith Aben-Ezra, as the Spirits do ſoul and body; and therefore, Quis poteſt me interimere, ſaith Kimchi, who can do me to death?

Of whom ſhall I be afraid] Faith fortifieth the heart againſt diſtruſtful fears; which it quelleth and killeth. In a fright it runneth to the heart, as the bloud doth, and releeveth it, ſetting it [non-Latin text not transcribed], out of the Gunſhot of Creature-annoyances, Expertus loquor; for