Holy and reverend is his name. ] The word reverend comes to us from the Latins, reverendus, and is compounded of re, intensive, and vereor, to be feared; and most or right reverend, reverendissimus, signifies to be greatly feared. These terms are now only titles of ecclesiastical respect, especially in the Protestant ministry; but there was a time in which these were no empty titles. Such was the power of the clergy, that, when they walked not in the fear of the Lord, they caused the people to fear, and they themselves were to be feared; but, when the secular power was added to the spiritual, they were then truly reverendi and reverendissimi, to be feared and greatly to be feared. But reverend is not applied to God in this way; nor does the word arwn nora bear this signification; it rather means terrible: Holy and terrible, or holy and tremendous, is his name. This title belongs not to man; nor does any minister, in assuming the title reverend, assume this. Indeed, the word reverend, as now used, gives us a very imperfect conception of the original term. Holy and tremendous is God's name. He is glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders, both in the way of judgment and in the way of mercy.

Matthew Henry Commentary

--The psalmist resolves to praise God himself. Our exhortations and ou examples should agree together. He recommends the works of the Lord, a the proper subject, when we are praising him; and the dealings of his providence toward the world, the church, and particular persons. All the works of the Lord are spoken of as one, it is his work; s admirably do all the dispensations of his providence centre in on design. The works of God, humbly and diligently sought into, shall all be found just and holy. God's pardoning sin is the most wonderful of all his works, and ought to be remembered to his glory. He will ever be mindful of his covenant; he has ever been so, and he ever will be so His works of providence were done according to the truth of the Divin promises and prophecies, and so were verity, or truth; and by him wh has a right to dispose of the earth as he pleases, and so are judgment or righteous: and this holds good of the work of grace upon the hear of man, ver. #(7, 8). All God's commandments are sure; all have bee fulfilled by Christ, and remain with him for a rule of walk an conversation to us. He sent redemption unto his people, out of Egypt a first, and often afterwards; and these were typical of the grea redemption, which in the fulness of time was to be wrought out by the Lord Jesus. Here his everlasting righteousness shines forth in unio with his boundless mercy. No man is wise who does not fear the Lord; n man acts wisely except as influenced by that fear. This fear will lea to repentance, to faith in Christ, to watchfulness and obedience. Suc persons are of a good understanding, however poor, unlearned, or despised __________________________________________________________________

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