meekness, and righteousness, and his right hand teaches him terrible things. His arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; and the people fall under him" (Ps. xlv. 4, 5). He fights with the sharp two-edged sword proceeding out of his mouth (Rev. i. 16); with the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God (Eph. vi. 17). And Christ's call to the people, to men of every rank and nation, is never effectual but when accompanied with the conviction and conversion, the energy and almighty power of his Holy Spirit. Thus, "Christ came and preached peace to them who were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father" (Eph. ii. 17, 18). "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began " (2 Tim. i. 9).

"And nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee;" or, "People that knew not thee shall run unto thee." The expression in the original is peculiar; the noun is singular, but

the verb is plural. The meaning is, that multitudes, becoming obedient to the faith, shall "run" unto Christ; and those multitudes, too, whether in private capacity as individuals, or in public capacity as nations, composed of persons that previously knew not Christ. We perceive the fulfilment of this prophecy in days gone by, when the ancient Romans, that had worshipped gods and goddesses, professed the Christian faith ; when the old Greeks of Achaia and Macedonia and Asia Minor embraced the religion of Jesus; when the inhabitants of Egypt, and Hippo, and Carthage bowed the knee to the Saviour; and when the heathen nations of Spain, and Gaul, and Germany, and Great Britain, casting their idols to the moles and the bats, worshipped him who had died on Calvary. And, in the very days in which we live, we behold the accomplishment, to some extent, of this prophecy, in the conversion of the islanders of Tahiti, and Owyhee, and Madagascar, and of the once idolatrous races and tribes in India, and China, and Burmah, whilst the Karens, in the last of those great empires, may be said almost literally to have "run" to Christ. Certainly,

many of these simple-minded people have received the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour with great avidity, and not a few of them embraced it at once on the first hearing. In all those cases, the prediction has been fulfilled: "People that knew not thee shall run unto thee." And, in the good providence of God, that prediction remains still more gloriously to be accomplished. The nations shall run unto the Saviour; zeal and alacrity, faith and love, will stir up barbarous and civilized men to come in eager haste to the Lord Christ; and where formerly they knew neither God, nor Christ, nor his Holy Spirit, they shall run in the way of his commandments (Ps. cxix. 32), and worship God, who is a Spirit, in spirit and in truth (John iv. 24).

"Because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.” All those blessings flow from the "everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David," even Christ (ver. 3). The call of the Gentiles and the diffusion of the Gospel are the results of that covenant between God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The Son of God becomes man, fulfils all

righteousness, suffers and dies for his people. And God the Father glorifies the Son. He gives him the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession (Ps. ii. 8). "Because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee." Christ, as one of the parties in the covenant, is addressed. The "LORD" is his " God;" for he says to Mary, "Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God" (John xx. 17). And God the Father is also the God of his people, "the Holy One of Israel." In that capacity, as "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Eph. i. 3), and as the God of his people in Christ, "the Holy One of Israel,"

the nations that knew not" the Saviour "shall run" unto him. All is according to the mutual stipulation in the contract of the “everlasting covenant;" and hence it is emphatically added—

"For he hath glorified thee." And God the Father hath glorified Christ his Son in various ways, and to a most remarkable degree. From all eternity God glorified him; and in the days

of his flesh, in his intercessory prayer, Christ therefore prays, "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was" (John xvii. 5). The fact is, "Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory" (1 Tim. iii. 16). The Father glorified Christ at his birth by a multitude of the heavenly host; at his baptism, by a voice from heaven; at his temptation, by the ministration of angels; at his transfiguration, "When there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (2 Pet. i. 17); at his crucifixion, when the sun was darkened, the rocks rent, and the graves opened; at his resurrection, when he was "declared to be the Son of God with power" (Rom. i. 4); and at his ascension, when the apostles and the angels of God attended him, as he returned like a conqueror in triumph into heaven. It was thus that God glorified his Son in relation to all that Christ did, and in relation