Psalms 82

There are many titular gods; kings represent God; their regal scepter is an emblem of his power and authority. Judges are called gods (Psalm 82:5). I have said you are gods, (namely) set in God's place to do justice; but dying gods (verse 7).

Though he be not far from the assembly of his saints. He stands in the congregation of the mighty (Psalms 82:1). He is present with us, God is in every one of us: so that here on earth we may walk with God.

Use 4. Exhortation: Let us every one in our place make this our chief end and design, to glorify God. 1. Let me speak to magistrates; God has put much glory upon them (Psalm 82:6): I have said you are gods; and will not they glorify him whom he has put so much glory upon? Magist…

Your body is but air and dust mingled together, and this dust will drop into the dust. When the Lord had said of the judges they were gods (Psalms 82:6) lest they should grow proud, he tells them, they were dying gods, verse 7. You shall die like men.

18. The evil tongue is the unjust tongue, that will for a piece of money open its mouth in a bad cause. The lawyer has Linguam venalem — a tongue that will be sold for money (Psalms 82:2): "How long will you judge unjustly?" Some will plead any cause, though never so bad: though…

According to this sense, the dead reproach him with a wonderful nipping derision, in saying, that he is made like to them: because death only gives us to know (as the satiric Poet speaks) how weak a thing the body of man is. David also speaking of Princes, and of their dignity,…

Now although it were not greatly from the purpose, that the Prophet should allude to those lawful assemblies, where the ancients are set with God, as being his lieutenants: yet notwithstanding I agree to the most received opinion: namely, that God will even plead against the anc…

At first, no doubt, human nature, in which the image of God brightly shone, occupied so high a station that this opprobrious epithet did not apply to all nations, and even to kings, on whom God confers the honor of bearing his name. This is probably an allusion to Psalm 82:6, I…

Not by his permission only, but by his ordinance and appointment. And whereas a great and conspicuous part of the image of God consists in his sovereignty and dominion, he has so expressly stamped this image of his upon them, that for their likeness to him in it, he gives them t…

And it would be sad if corruptions be found in you when distractions are upon you. It is said of the assembly of the gods that had not done justice to the afflicted, nor defended the poor widow and fatherless (Psalm 82:5), that they know not, neither will they understand — they…

Governors and government may die, principalities grow old and infirm, and sicken and die, as well as princes; kingdoms expire, like kings, and they like us. (Psalm 82:6-7) I have said, you are gods, and all of you are children of the most High: But you shall die like men. But yo…

Indeed, this is how the princes of this world generally act. But they ought to remember what the prophet records about their condition in Psalm 82: You princes shall die, he says, and shall fall like one of the common people. But besides this, the prophet teaches in that Psalm t…

For the governed, it interposes express rules for their obedience (Romans 13:1): Let every soul be subject to the higher powers; and (1 Peter 2:15): For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. There are many arguments why…

Third, by participation of dignity; so kings and rulers are called children of the Most High. Psalm 82:6: I have said you are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High. Fourth, by visible profession; so God has many children.

6:22, 23. Psalm 82:3. Do justice to the Afflicted and Poor; that is, justify them in their cause against Wrong and Oppression.

As for so much as pertains to the second table, Jeremiah warns kings, to do judgment and righteousness, to deliver the forcibly oppressed from the hand of the false accuser, not to grieve the stranger and widow, not to do wrong, and not to shed innocent blood (Jeremiah 22:3). To…

8th Commandment: You shall not steal. He breaks this commandment: who lives in no calling (1 Thessalonians 3:11); who neglects his calling (Jeremiah 48:10); who spends his wealth in riot and provides not for his family (1 Timothy 5:8); who is not content with his estate but seek…

First, the meditation of death would pull down the plumes of pride; you are but pulvis animatus; shall dust and ashes be proud? You have a grassy body, Isaiah 40:6, and shall shortly be mown down; I have said you are gods, Psalm 82, but lest they should grow proud, he adds a cor…