Psalm 117:26,27,23
Blessed be He that cometh in the name of the Lord: the Lord is God, and He hath shone upon us. This is the Lord’s doing: and it is wonderful in our eyes.
Haydock
Verse 26. We. The Levites, (C.) or Christ and his ministers pronounce this blessing, (W.) or the psalmist gives it, after having expressed his thanks for the graces brought by the Messias. Bert.
Verse 27. Us. Christ, who comes in the name of the Lord, “is himself God,” our instructor. S. Aug. Tit. ii. 11. Bert. — Day. The feast of tabernacles, for which this psalm was probably composed. The Jews dwelt under tents. C. Lev. xxiii. 40. and 2 Esd. vii. 15. — Altar. Heb. “Bind a festival with cords unto the horns,” &c. To make sense, the Chal. inserts, bind the lamb for the festival. But this Houbigant ridicules, and he believes that the solemn entrance of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem is here foretold. Scarcely any prediction in the Old Testament is more clearly verified in the new. Matt. xxi. 8. Heb. Bahabothim certainly means, “in ramis opacis,” and S. Jerom translates, “frequent the solemnity in shady boughs.” Bert. — The victims were never tied to the altar, but slain in the porch of the northern gate. Ezec. xl. 39. C.