relation  ;  so  that,  instead  of  the  verb  being  followed  by  the
preposition  and  pronoun,  it  might  simply  have  been  VDin.  non
with  a  signifies,  from  the  first,  "to  confide  in  some  one;"  never
"  to  fly  to  any  one" — which  has  been  taken  as  its  import,  only
in  consequence  of  a  false  interpretation  of  the  phrase,  "  trusting
in  the  shadow,  i.e.,  in  the  support  of  any  one."  Scripture  con-
stantly admonishes  us  to  place  our  confidence  in  the  Lord  alone;
on  which  account  the  verb  before  us  is  in  a  manner  consecrated
and  set  apart ;  and  also  warns  men  against  confiding  in  earthly
kings ;  comp.  Psalm  cxviii.  9 :  "It  is  better  to  trust  in  the
Lord,  than  to  put  confidence  in  princes ;"  Psalm  cxlvi.  3  :
"  Trust  not  in  princes,  nor  in  the  son  of  man,  in  whom  there  is
no  help."  In  the  words,  therefore,  "  Blessed  are  all  they  who
])ut  their  trust  in  Him,"  an  allusion  is  made  to  the  superhuman
nature  and  dignity  of  the  Anointed.  Many  expositors,  opposed
to  the  Messianic  intei-pretation,  are  driven  to  such  straits  by
this,  that  they  would  refer  the  suffix  in  u,  with  great  violence,
not  to  the  Son,  of  whom  mention  had  been  made  immediately
before,  and  of  wdiom  it  is  said  in  tliis  verse  itself,  "  Kiss  the
Son,  lest  He  be  angry,"  but  to  the  Lord — which  is  an  unwill-
ing testimony  to  the  Messianic  character  of  this  Psalm,  as  well
as  to  the  superhuman  nature  of  the  Messiah  in  the  Old  Testa-
ment. Others,  as  Abenezra,  De  Wette,  ISIaurer,  would  i-efer
even  the  words,  "  lest  He  be  angiy,"  to  Jehovah  ;  overlooking,
however,  while  they  do  so,  the  relation  in  which  these  w^rds
stand  to  ver.  9,  according  to  which,  not  Jehovah,  but  the  Son,
is  to  break  the  revolters  with  an  iron  sceptre,  and  dash  them
in  pieces  like  a  potter's  vessel — a  manifestation  of  wrath  which
they  are  here  exhorted  to  flee  from.
