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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 49
Men cannot be ransomed or redeemed by wealth—God alone can redeem a
soul from the grave—The glory of a rich man ceases with his death.
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
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1 HEAR this, all
ye people; give aear, all ye inhabitants of
the world:
2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
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4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will
aopen my dark saying upon the harp.
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,
when the iniquity of my aheels shall compass me
about?
6 They that trust in their
awealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their
riches;
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7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
8 (For the redemption of their
asoul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
9 That he should still alive
for ever, and not see corruption.
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10 For he seeth that wise men
adie, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and
leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought is, that their
houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to
all generations; they call their lands after their own
anames.
12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
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13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death
shall feed on them; and the upright shall have adominion
over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from
their dwelling.
15 But God will aredeem my
soul from the power of the gravea:
for he shall breceive me. Selah.
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15a redeem my soul from the power of the
grave Just what did the Saducees think that David was speaking of
when he stated that 'God would redeem his soul from the grave'? It seems
clear enough that man's soul must be raised from the dead in order to over
come the power of death and of the grave. Yet was the Saducees arguing
against the resurrection where the spirit unto life is reunited unto its
tabernacle of clay, flesh and bone, or where they actually aguing against an
after life of any kind? There is a difference and many traditional Christian
religions maintain that while there is life after the grave, the spirit of
man will not be reunited with its body and this dispite the fact that that is
exactly that which Jesus Christ did when he was resurrected. He again took
upon himself a body of flesh and bone. It seems that both in the Jewish
religion as well as those of the Christian religion, there are those who do
not believe in a literal resurrection but only that the spirit will be raised
from the dead. This however is nonsense as the spirit does not ever die but
is eternal in nature and lives on after death already and only a victory over
death can therefore be taken as a reuniting of the body to the spirit and that
the body be raised from the power of the grave unto immortality.
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16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he
ablessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when
thou doest well to thyself.
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19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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