This  promise  was  given  to  help  the  weakness  of  the  Israelites,
which  made  them  desire  a  prssens  numen,  an  incorporation  of
the  idea  that  God  is,  in  a  peculiar  sense,  their  God.     When
the  faitliful  seek  help  from  the  sanctuary,  they  declare  Hiat
they  expect  it,  not  from  Eloliim,  but  from  Jehovah-that  they
hope  for  that  power  of  the  covenant  with  Israel,  upon  wiich
Dlone  thev  could  rest  with  proper  confidence.     For  the  Chris-
tian, Christ  has  come  into  the  place  of  Jehovah,  and  the  ho  y
hill.     In  regard  to  the  Selah  here,  Luther  remarks:      Ihe
word  means,  that  we  should  here  pause,  and  not  JightJy  pa^s
over  these  words,  but  reflect  further  upon  them.     For  it  is  an


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