Now this was what happened to
the Pharisees: they could not help knowing that God had shown
especial favour to them; and that He had taught them more about God
than He had taught the heathen. But instead of feeling all the more
humble and thankful for this, and of remembering day and night that
because much had been given to them much would be required of them,
they thought more about the honour and glory which God had put on
them. They forgot what God had declared, namely, that it was not for
their own goodness that He had taught them, for that they were in
themselves not a whit better than the heathen around them. They
forgot that the reason why He taught them was, that they were to do
His work on earth, by witnessing for His name, and telling the
heathen that God was their Lord, as well as Lord of the Jews. Now
David, and the old Psalmists and Prophets, did not forget this.
Their cry is: "Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is King."
"Worship the Son of God, ye kings of the earth, and make your peace
with Him lest He be angry." "It was in vain," he told the heathen
kings, "to try to cast away God's government from them, and break His
bonds from off them," for "the Lord was King, let the nations be
never so unquiet.
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