Fundamenta ejus.
The glory of the church of Christ.
86:1. For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations
thereof are in the holy mountains:
The holy mountains.... The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2.20.
86:2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of
Jacob.
86:3. Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.
86:4. I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the
foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were
there.
Rahab.... Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many
shall resort from all nations.
86:5. Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the
Highest himself hath founded her.
Shall not Sion say, etc.... The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the
church, shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular
person of renown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of
people and princes of her communion; who have been foretold in the
writings of the prophets, and registered in the writings of the
apostles.
86:6. The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of
them that have been in her.
86:7. The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.