Commentary

Psalm 95

John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes (1754–65)

Short notes for ordinary readers by the founder of Methodism: practical, brief and to the point.

Verse 3

God's - Above all that are called God's angels, earthly potentates, and especially the false gods of the Heathen.

Verses 4–6

Hand - Under his government. Strength - The strongest or highest mountains.

Verse 7

Pasture - Whom he feeds and keeps in his own pasture, or in the land which he hath appropriated to himself. The sheep - Which are under his special care. Today - Forthwith or presently.

Verse 8

Harden not - By obstinate unbelief. Provocation - In that bold and wicked contest with God in the wilderness. Temptation - In the day in which you tempted me.

Verse 9

Works - Both of mercy, and of justice.

Verse 10

Do err - Their hearts are insincere and bent to backsliding. Not known - After all my teaching and discoveries of myself to them; they did not know, nor consider, those great things which I had wrought for them.

Verse 11

My rest - Into the promised land, which is called the rest, Deut 12:9.

John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes (1754–65). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.