27. And the blessings then extend to the Gentile nations also, even to the most distant parts of the world, who are now to become worshippers of the true God, Jehovah. And, as a matter of fact, Christians exist in all known countries, and wherever there are Christians, Jehovah is worshipped.
28. To Whom the whole earth, both the Jewish kingdom and the Gentile nations, really belongs.
29. And to Whom everyone will eventually bow down.
30. After this we read of a seed serving Him, probably used here, as in Isaiah, for disciples, each generation of whom is to tell of this wonderful deliverance to the next. And this they have been doing for eighteen centuries.
31. And so they will continue doing to generations that are yet unborn. While the closing words, He hath done it (R.V.) are often taken as referring to the whole Psalm, meaning that the work of suffering and atonement was now complete, It is done;[390] and they would thus correspond to Christ's closing words on the Cross, It it finished.
[390] Hengstenberg, Commentary on Psalms, 1867, vol. i., 396.
Everyone must admit that the agreement all through is very remarkable; though there are two slight objections.
(2.) Two objections.
The first is that there is nothing to show that the writer meant the Psalm to refer to the Messiah at all, though, strange to say, some of the Jews so interpreted it;[391] therefore if there is an agreement, it is at most only a chance coincidence. But the idea of all these coincidences being due to chance is most improbable. And there certainly is some indication that it refers to the Messiah, since, as we have seen, it leads up to the conversion of the Gentiles, which the other Jewish prophets always associate with the times of the Messiah.
[391] Edersheim, 1901, vol. ii., 713.