Psalms 8:3,4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Psalmist is here lost in admiration. He contemplates the heavenly bodies, those bright luminaries the moon and the stars. He doth not notice the sun; probably it was night when this meditation on the starry sky was taken. And while he considered these vast powers of God's creation, he is lost in wonder in recollecting the mercies of redemption. And it should seem particularly with an eye to the great Maker condescending to become man. It is not that he who made so magnificent a world condescended to look upon man, for man, as the work of his hands, was an object for the great Creator to regard, as much and as highly, had it pleased his infinite mind, as any other work of his power. They who would interpret the passage in this sense, certainly overlook the great beauty of it. But the wonder of all wonders, and which the sacred writer is here contemplating, is, that God himself, in one person of the Godhead, should pass by the nature of angels, and take upon him the seed of Abraham. Hebrews 2:16. Most evidently it is this one, this identical Man, whose nature, united to the Godhead, forms the glorious Mediator, which the Psalmist is here contemplating, and concerning whom he thus breaks out in wonder, love, and praise.