Psalms 57:1-11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Verses 1-11

LVII. Here two Pss. are united: A containing Psalms 57:1-Joshua :, B, Psalms 57:7-1 Kings :.

Psalms 57:1-Joshua : . The Ps. is closely allied to the preceding, also a “ michtam” Ps. (p. 373). The author flees to God’ s protection against his foes and is confident in his own safety and their overthrow.

Psalms 57:1 . will I take refuge: read, “ I will hide.”

Psalms 57:2 . performeth all things for me: read, “ will requite me.”

Psalms 57:3 . save me . . . reproacheth: read, perhaps, “ and save my life from the hand of him that would swallow me up.”

Psalms 57:4 . Read, “ I dwell among them that greedily devour the sons of men.”

Psalms 57:5 . Quite out of place here; finds its proper position in Psalms 57:11.

Psalms 57:6 . My soul is bowed down: this cannot be right. The idea of the verse is that the wicked are caught in their own trap. Read b, “ In the net they have set for my feet their own hand was caught.”

LVII. B. A Morning Hymn.— Found also in Psalms 108:2-Joshua : with variants.

Psalms 57:7 . Translate, “ ready,” i.e. to sing and play.

Psalms 57:8 . awake up my glory: in Psalms 108 we have “ also my glory,” which is meaningless but probably presupposes the original reading, “ Thou art my glory.”— Translate “ I will awake the dawn” ( mg.) . This is a natural personification. The dawn has eyelids ( Job 3:9 *, Job 41:18) and wings ( Psalms 139:9).

Psalms 57:9 . among the peoples: i.e. wherever the exiled Jews found a home.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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