Psalms 87:1 «A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah. » His foundation [is] in the holy mountains.
A Psalm or Song] Made, likely, by David, after that he had settled the ark in Mount Sion, 2 Samuel 6:1,23, and understood that the temple should be built in Mount Moriah; in which two mountains (or rather one mountain with two tops) the Rabbis say that this psalm was composed, and thereunto they draw the next words, "His foundation," or the argument of this psalm, is in and of those holy mountains. But this seemeth not to be the sense.
Ver. 1. His foundation is in the holy mountains] Which cannot be removed, but abide for ever, Psalms 125:1. Some read it, The foundation thereof, viz. of the temple, but especially of the Church universal, that spiritual temple (built of living stones by God, the best architect, Christ himself being the chief cornerstone), is in the holy mountains; for out of Zion went forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem; which is therefore called the mother Church, and των εκκλησιων ακροπολις, the chief Church, the reef of the Gentile Churches, Romans 11:1,36, the conversion whereof is here foretold, Psalms 87:1, and perpetual happiness promised (Damasc. l.
4. c. 13).