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To execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!
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The Christian's Sword is Spiritual
Commentators like Calvin and Henry are clear that this verse is not a command for Christians to enact physical violence. While ancient Israel was at times a literal instrument of God's judgment, the "sword" for New Covenant believers is the spiritual "sword of the Word of God" (Ephesians 6:17). Our battle is against spiritual forces, and our weapon is the truth of the gospel, used to bring people to repentance or to pronounce God's judgment as revealed in Scripture.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
To execute upon them the judgment written - This means either what is written in the law in general as a threat to wicked men, or what was…
19th Century
Anglican
The judgment written.—If we knew the exact circumstance that produced the psalm, and had the names of the nobles and princes taken…
Baptist
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints (Psalms 149:9).
Or it may be read, "He is th…
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16th Century
Protestant
To perform the judgment, etc. He qualifies what he had said in the previous verses, in which he might have appeared to arm the Lord’s peop…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To execute upon them the judgment written In the law, according to the Targum; either upon the seven nations of the …
Some of God's servants in the past were appointed to execute vengeance according to His word. They did not do it from personal revenge or earthly p…
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