The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those that published [it].
Ver. 11. The Lord gave the word] That is, the occasion. De victu dixit, nunc de victoria, saith Vatablus; how God provided his people of victuals the psalmist had told us, now of the victory; the good news whereof shall soon be in every one's mouth, like the word in an army, with joyful acclamations and outcries, Deus obtulit occasionem laetandi, ovandi et triumphandi.
Great was the company (Heb. army) of those that published it] Such are the preachers of the gospel, Romans 10:15, an office taken now from the angels, and given to the ministers; whence that angel turned over Cornelius to Peter for further information, Act 10:1-6 The Hebrew word for publishers or preachers here is feminine, not to countenance our praedicantissae (such as was that Jezebel Mrs Hutchinson of New England), but to show the weakness of the means (fishermen and the like) that God is pleased to use in this great work, for the greater manifestation of his power in the success, as some conceive, Ut imbecillitatem ministrorum Ecclesiae notet (Moller).