His legs [are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
Ver. 15. His legs are as pillars of marble.] A sign of Christ's firmness in his kingdom, works, word, and government, saith a learned expositor, and of his strength to trample upon his enemies, as also of his united power to accomplish the course of his threefold office. Pillars both bear up the building and beautify it; neither can anything be more sure and solid than these, if set upon a firm foundation. The pillars here mentioned are said to be "set upon fine gold" - that is, upon a foundation both fine and firm, for gold hardly rusteth or cankereth; whence it was likely that Tithonus and his son Memnon, when they built the city of Susa, in Persia, they joined the stones together with gold, as Cassiodorus writeth: Christ's power is founded upon his divine nature; and this is the rock upon which the Church is built, and whereby it is set in safety from all miseries and molestations, satanic or secular. The gates of hell shall not prevail against her. Christ and the father are one; therefore none shall take her out of his hands. God hath "laid help upon one that is mighty," Psa 89:19 even upon Emmanuel, the mighty strong God, as he is called, Isa 9:6 "declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead," Rom 1:4 that your "faith and hope might be in God." 1Pe 1:21 Trust perfectly therefore to, or hope to the end, a "for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus": 1Pe 1:13 since he is "able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him." Heb 7:25
His countenance is as Lebanon.] His aspect, his look, or general view - i.e., whatsoever of himself Christ is pleased to manifest and lay open unto us is pleasant and delightful, goodly and glorious, excellent and eximious, choice as the cedars, that are chosen before other trees; and why? See Trapp on " Son 1:17 "
a Eις το παντελες. Prorsus, perpetuo, perfecte.