The theme is continued—the further blessings of the one who feared the Lord. Jesus is, in the full sense, this obedient one; and all that is here spoken of was pledged in resurrection to Him, and shall be His portion in the kingdom. The present virtues and advantages of the good and righteous one, the one who fears God, are also more fully exhibited. But this is another hallelujah—this is still to the praise of the same Lord—another lifting of the voice in praise.
The Jewish character of this Psalm (as is that of the Psalms generally) we may gather very surely from the way in which the Spirit in the Apostle Paul uses Psalm 112:9 in 2 Corinthians 9:8-10. For we may observe, that that which is matter of promise here, is only matter of desire there. And this is easily accounted for—and it is beautiful. For the blessings, which the saints are to reckon upon in this age, are not earthly, or in the circumstances of the present life, as the promise of God in this Psalm intimates. We may desire, in brotherly love, present good things for the saints, as John does for Gaius (3 John 2); but such things are not the subject of promise from God to us.