But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
But the meek ... abundance of peace. On "the meek," cf. Psalms 9:12, note, 'the humble.' Being men of peace now, they shall be the fit administrators in the coming kingdom of the Prince of Peace upon earth (Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 9:6; Hosea 2:18; Zechariah 9:10). As this blessed consummation is not to be until first the "evil-doers shall be cut off" (Psalms 37:9), "and the wicked shall not be" (Psalms 37:10), it cannot be until the winding up of this dispensation by Messiah's glorious appearing; because up to the harvest, or end of this age, the tares and the wheat remain intermingled (Matthew 13:30; Matthew 13:39-43); not until then takes place the excision of the wicked, succeeded by the reign of the righteous in that same "kingdom," the earth, "out of" which "the Son of Man shall send forth Has angels (to) gather all things that offend, and them which do iniquity." Compare Psalms 37:35-37.
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