You made him to have dominion - You caused him to have, or gave him this dominion. It does not mean that God made or created him fo…

The poet continues, in a rapturous strain, to complete the cycle of animated nature, and to describe man’s kingship over all other created beings. …

Man is God's viceroy. He reigns over God's works in God's name. Let him not set up to be a king, and try to usurp the honour of his great Lord, the…

You have set him over. David now comes to the second point, which I have just now spoken of: namely, that from the dominion over all thing…

You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands,
&c.] All power in heaven and in earth being given to him…

We are to consider the heavens, so that man may in this way be directed to set his affections on things above. What is man, so lowly a creature, th…

Previously, the psalmist offered a psalm in which David prayed because of his persecution; here, he offers a psalm of thanksgiving.

He prese…