Verse 20
He that is our God ,.... Or "God for us" F17 האל לנו "Deus nobis, vel est nobis", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator. ; is on our side; and is the mighty God, able to save to the uttermost;
is the God of salvation ; or "God for salvations" F18 אל למושעות "Deus ad salutes", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; for the obtaining of them for his people, and giving them to them, even of every kind;
and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death ; deliverance from it; Christ has abolished it, and him that had the power of it; has delivered himself from it, and will deliver all his people from it, though they become subject to it, as well as from eternal death; for he has the keys of hell and death in his hands. Some render the words, "to God the Lord belong the issues", or "ways unto death" F19 למות תוצאות "ad mortem exitus", Pagninus, Montanus; "mille viae laethi", Lucan. ; he has various ways of bringing persons to death, of destroying his and his people's enemies; and so Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi interpret it; though the following words seem to be opposed to these: the Heathens had a notion that the power of death belonged to God; hence they had a deity called the god of death, "Dites" F20 Macrob. in Somn. Scip. l. 1. c. 11. .
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