None holy - Holiness is peculiar to the God of Israel; no false god ever pretended to holiness; it was no attribute of heathenism, nor of any religion ever professed in the world before or since the true revelation of the true God.
There is none beside thee -
There can be but one unoriginated, infinite, and eternal Being; that Being is
Jehovah.
Any rock like our God - Rabbi
Maimon has observed that the word צור tsur, which we translate rock, signifies,
when applied to Jehovah, fountain, source, spring. There is no source whence
continual help and salvation can arise but our God.
2:1-10 Hannah's heart rejoiced,
not in Samuel, but in the Lord. She looks beyond the gift, and praises the
Giver. She rejoiced in the salvation of the Lord, and in expectation of His
coming, who is the whole salvation of his people. The strong are soon weakened,
and the weak are soon strengthened, when God pleases. Are we poor? God made us
poor, which is a good reason why we should be content, and make up our minds to
our condition. Are we rich? God made us rich, which is a good reason why we
should be thankful, and serve him cheerfully, and do good with the abundance he
gives us. He respects not man's wisdom or fancied excellences, but chooses
those whom the world accounts foolish, teaching them to feel their guilt, and
to value his free and precious salvation. This prophecy looks to the kingdom of
Christ, that kingdom of grace, of which Hannah speaks, after having spoken
largely of the kingdom of providence. And here is the first time that we meet
with the name MESSIAH, or his Anointed. The subjects of Christ's kingdom will
be safe, and the enemies of it will be ruined; for the Anointed, the Lord
Christ, is able to save, and to destroy.
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