How great an honor will it be to a person to have God at the day of judgment owning a person, declaring before all men, angels and devils that that person is before His all-seeing eyes and that he stands innocent and perfect in His sight, clothed with perfect righteousness and entitled to everlasting glory and blessedness. How honorable will this render them in the eyes of all that vast assembly that will be together at the day of judgment. That will be an infinitely greater honor than any man or any angel declaring that they judge him upright and sincere and that eternal life belongs to him. What can be a greater honor than this — to be owned by the great King and Lord of all things?
Jonathan Edwards

Spurgeon PS1010

Spurgeon PS1010

EXPOSITION.

“_He croucheth and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones_.” Seeming humility is often armour-bearer to malice. The lion crouches that he may leap with the greater force, and bring down his strong limbs upon his prey. When a wolf was old and had tasted human blood, the old Saxon cried, “Ware, wolf!” and we may cry, “Ware, fox!” They who crouch to our feet are longing to make us fall. Be very careful of fawners; for friendship and flattery are deadly enemies.

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.

Verse 10.–“_He croucheth, and humbleth himself_,” etc. There is nothing too mean or servile for them, in the attempt to achieve their sinister ends. You shall see his holiness the Pope washing the pilgrims’ feet, if such a stratagem be necessary to act on the minds of the deluded multitude; or you shall see him sitting on a throne of purple, if he wishes to awe and control the kings of the earth.–^John Morison.

Verse 10.–If you take a wolf in a lambskin, hang him up; for he is the worst of the generation.–^Thomas Adams.

HINTS TO PREACHERS.

Verse 10.–Designing humility unmasked.