Psalms 40:2
Pit — Desperate dangers and calamities. Rock — A place of strength and safety. Established — Kept me from falling into mischief.... [ Continue Reading ]
Pit — Desperate dangers and calamities. Rock — A place of strength and safety. Established — Kept me from falling into mischief.... [ Continue Reading ]
And fear — Shall stand in awe of that God, whom they see to have so great power, either to save or to destroy.... [ Continue Reading ]
The proud — Or, the mighty, the great and proud potentates of the world, to whom most men are apt to look and trust. Turn — From God, in whom alone they ought to trust. To lies — To lying vanities, such as worldly power and wisdom, and riches, and all other earthly things, or persons, in which men a... [ Continue Reading ]
Many — This verse seems to be interposed as a wall of partition, between that which David speaks in his own person, and that which he speaks in the person of the Messiah, in the following verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sacrifice — These and the following words, may in an improper sense belong to the time of David; when God might be said, not to desire or require legal sacrifices comparatively. Thou didst desire obedience rather than sacrifices, but in a proper sense, they belong only to the person and times of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Them — These words literally and truly belong to Christ, and the sense is this; seeing thou requirest a better sacrifice than those of the law, lo, I offer myself to come, and I will in due time come, into the world, as this phrase is explained in divers places of scripture, and particularly Hebrews... [ Continue Reading ]
I delight — This is eminently true, of Christ, and is here observed as an act of heroic obedience, that he not only resolved to do, but delighted in doing the will of God, or what God had commanded him, which was to die, and that a most shameful, and painful, and cursed death. My heart — I do not on... [ Continue Reading ]
Righteousness — Thy faithfulness. Great congregation — In the most public and solemn assemblies: not only to the Jews, but also to all nations; to whom Christ preached by his apostles, as is observed Ephesians 2:17. Not refrained — From preaching it, even to the face of mine enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
With — hold not — David, having been transported by the spirit of God to the commemoration of the great mystery of the Messiah, he now seems to be led back by the same spirit, to the consideration of his own case.... [ Continue Reading ]
Taken hold — Mens sins are figuratively said to take hold of them, as an officer takes hold of a man whom he arrests. To look — Unto God or men, with any comfort: I am ashamed and confounded.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shame — Their sinful and shameful actions.... [ Continue Reading ]