Psalm XV.491    Lat. XIV.

A psalm of David himself.

1. Touching this title there is no question. “O Lord who shall sojourn in Thy tabernacle?” (ver. 1). Although tabernacle be sometimes used even for an everlasting habitation: yet when tabernacle is taken in its proper meaning, it is a thing of war. Hence soldiers are called tent-fellows,492    Contubernales. as having their tents together. This sense is assisted by the words, “Who shall sojourn?” For we war with the devil for a time, and then we need a tabernacle wherein we may refresh ourselves. Which specially points out the faith of the temporal Dispensation, which was wrought for us in time through the Incarnation of the Lord. “And who shall rest in Thy holy mountain?” Here perhaps he signifies at once the eternal habitation itself, 493    2 Cor. v. 1, 2. that we should understand by “mountain” the supereminence of the love of Christ in life eternal.494    [This Psalm is called by some of the Fathers “the Ladder of Jacob,” by which the righteous ascend to God. It is the octave of Ps. viii., which is appropriate to the ascension of humanity in Christ.—C.]

2. “He who walketh without stain, and worketh righteousness” (ver. 2). Here he has laid down the proposition; in what follows he sets it forth in detail.

3. “Who speaketh the truth in his heart.” For some have truth on their lips,