The Pulpit Commentary: Psalms (Vol. II)

by H. D. M. Spence

Publisher:

Funk & Wagnalls

, 1909

Overview

One of the largest homiletical commentary sets of its kind, this work gives a verse-by-verse exposition, a translation, and historical and geographical information, followed by the homiletics section, homilies by numerous authors, and a homiletical index to the Bible.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The subject is the security of the man who thoroughly trusts in God. This subject is worked out by an ‘antiphonal arrangement’ (Cheyne)—the first speaker delivering vers. 1, 2; the second, vers. 3, 4; then the first responding with vers. 5–8; and again the second with vers. 9–13. In conclusion, a third speaker, making himself the mouthpiece of Jehovah, crowns all by declaring the blessings which God himself will bestow upon his faithful ones (vers. 14–16).” (Page 267)

“To envy the wicked because they prosper is to make more account of the good things of this life than of God’s favour—to prefer physical good to moral.” (Page 70)

“And forget not all his benefits (comp. Deut. 6:12; 8:11, 14, etc). Man is so apt to ‘forget,’ that he requires continual exhortation not to do so.” (Page 382)

“‘Bring all my heart into unison, that it may be wholly fixed on thee.’” (Page 214)

“The hundredth psalm has for its title, ‘A Psalm of praise,’ or ‘of thanksgiving,’ and to this description it well answers. There is not a single mournful note in the composition. God is praised from the beginning to the end, and all the earth is called upon to join in blessing and thanking him. It has been suggested that it was probably written to be chanted by a festive procession as it approached and entered the temple (see ver. 4). The whole runs on without any break or division.” (Page 352)

Product Details

• Title: Psalms (Vol. II)
• Author: H. D. M. Spence
• Series: Pulpit Commentary
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
• Print Publication Date: 1909
• Logos Release Date: 2004
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Psalms › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:29.24.16
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:25:00Z

About H. D. M. Spence

H.D.M. Spence (1836–1917), or the Very Reverend Henry Donald Maurice Spence, was an Anglican dean and author at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

Spence was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, and ordained in 1865. He lectured in Hebrew at St. David’s College in Lampeter until 1870. He later became rector of St. Mary de Crypt in Gloucester. From 1886 until his death in 1917, Spence served as the Dean of Gloucester. In 1904, he took on his wife’s surname and went by Donald Spence Jones. 

Spence served as the general editor of the best-selling The Pulpit Commentary series, and is the author of several other commentaries and church histories.