Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Ver. 10. Humble yourselves] He beats often upon this most needful but much neglected duty of humiliation, and all is little enough; there being nothing that more goes against the heart and the hair with us, than to go downward; and yet it must be done, or we are undone.
And he shall lift you up] The Lion of Judah rends not the prostrate prey. But as William the Conqueror ever held submission satisfactory for the greatest offences, and often received rebels into grace (Daniel's Chron.), so doth Christ much more. The sun in the morning gathereth clouds, but then it soon scattereth them again; so doth the Sun of righteousness cast men down, that he may raise them up again.
" Deiecit ut relevet, premit ut solatia praestet,
Enecat ut possit vivificare Deus. "