Psalms 98:1 «A Psalm. » O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
A Psalm] The Greek addeth, of David. A man might think it were rather of John Baptist pointing out Christ, and his kingdom, as if already come, with the great good thereby accruing to the saints.
Ver. 1. O sing unto the Lord a new song] See Psalms 96:1, and observe how the compiler of the psalms hath hereabout set together sundry psalms of the same subject.
His right hand and his holy arm] His is emphatic, and exclusive; q.d. Christ alone hath done the deed, he is our sole Saviour, Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5. In the justification of a sinner Christ and faith are alone, saith Luther, Tanquam sponsus et sponsa in thalamo. As wax and water cannot meet together, so neither can Christ and anything else in this work. Away, then, with that devilish doctrine of the saints' merits, Quibuscunque tandem pigmentis illita obtrudatur. If any commend or go after any other way to salvation besides Christ, he doth according to the Greek proverb, draw mischiefs to himself; as the wind Caecius doth clouds, Kακα εφ εαυτον ελκει ως ο Kαικιας νεφος, (Aristot. in Meteor.).