Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Ver. 5. Even unto them will I give in mine house.] In the Church of the New Testament. Eph 2:19-21
A place.] Heb., A hand. A door keeper's place in God's house is worth having; Psa 84:10 this was that one thing that he so dearly begged. Psa 27:4
And a name.] That new name, Rev 2:17 that power or prerogative-royal - that heavenly honour, Nonnus there calleth it - viz., "to be the sons of God," Joh 1:12 and so to be "called," 1Jn 3:1 to have both the comfort and the credit of it: this is nomen in mundo praestantissimum; none to this, 2Co 6:18 for "if sons, then heirs." Rom 8:16-17