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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 40:7

RV 'Lo, I am come,' the Psalmist's personal consecration to God's service: see Isaiah 6:9. In the volume of the book it is written of me] rather, 'in the roll of the book it is prescribed to me.' The words are a parenthesis, and the reference is probably to Deuteronomy (see 2 Kings 22:8.), with its spiritual and inward view of obedience. The writer to the Hebrews rightly recognises that Christ's obedience perfectly fulfilled this ideal of devoted surrender to God's will.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 40:7. _IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK_] במגלת ספר _bimegillath_ _sepher_, "in the _roll_ of the book." Anciently, books were written on skins, and rolled up. Among the Romans, these were call...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN SAID I - In Hebrews 10:7, the apostle applies this to the Messiah. See the notes at that verse. This is the most simple and satisfactory interpretation of the passage. The word “then” in this ver...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 40 Christ the Obedient One and the Fruit of His Work _ 1. The path of the Obedient One (Psalms 40:1)_ 2. His prayer and His comfort (Psalms 40:13)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XL. A. PSALMS 40:1. A THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. The Psalmist believes that his own gratitude will give confidence to others. God, he says, takes no special delight in sacrificial worship. It is gr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEN SAID I: i.e. at Incarnation, when He "came into the world" (Hebrews 10:5). VOLUME OF THE BOOK. scroll, that is to say, the book. Genitive of Apposition, and Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    True service consists not in material sacrifices but in obedience to the will of God. The stanza is an answer to the implied question, How should man express his gratitude? It affirms the common proph...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Then said I_ This was his answer when he became aware of God's requirements. _Lo, I come_ Rather as R.V., Lo, I am come: (LXX. ἰδοὺ ἥκω) the servant's response to his master's summons (Numbers 22:38;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SACRIFICE AND OFFERING, &C.— These three verses, as they may possibly relate to David, who was a a type of Christ, may be thus considered.—_Sacrifice,_ &c. The Psalmist here enumerates the principal s...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 40 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Three Stirring Reminiscences of King David's History. ANALYSIS Part I., Significant Memorials of David's Coronation. Stanza I., Psalms 40:1-3, A highly Figurative Descri...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN SAID I, LO, I COME: IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME,_ Then (_ 'AAZ_ (H227)) - when sacrifices and offerings, such as the Mosaic law prescribed, were proved not to be what God desi...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    40:7 volume (i-9) Or 'roll.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SAID I. — This rendering, which follows the LXX. and Vulg., and is adopted in the Epistle to the Hebrews, must be abandoned. The Hebrew means, _Lo! I come, bringing the book written for_ _me,_ wh...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 40:8]_ אָ֣ז אָ֭מַרְתִּי הִנֵּה ־בָ֑אתִי בִּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 40:1 THE closing verses of this psalm reappear with slight changes as an independent whole in Psalms 70:1. The question arises whether that is a fragment or this a conglomerate. Modern opinion...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A JOYOUS TESTIMONY Psalms 40:1 This psalm follows appropriately on the two former, in which the psalmist had been detailing his sufferings. Here he celebrates deliverance. But a Greater than David is...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Again we find in this psalm the perfect structure found in Psalms 27:1. Praise prepares for prayer. The experience has mounted higher than in the preceding song (39). The singer still suffers diction,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (g) Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me, (g) When you had opened my ears and heart, I was ready to obey you, being assured that I was written in the book of your...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Holy Ghost would not suffer the church to make her own comment upon this most momentous passage; but by his servant the apostle Paul (Hebrews 10:5.) hath very fully done it himself; and plainly an...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE SELF-CONSECRATION OF MESSIAH_ ‘Then said I, Lo, I come.’ Psalms 40:7 I. WHEN DID CHRIST SAY THESE WORDS?—To what date does ‘then’ refer? No numbers can reckon up the ages back, and no mind can...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._Then said I, Lo! I come. _By the adverb _then _he intimates, that he had not been a good scholar, and capable of profiting by instruction, until God had opened his ears; but as soon as he had been...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 40 AND 41. In Psalms 40 then Christ is seen, not only in His passage through the sorrows which beset His way, if He took up the cause of the disobedient and guil...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SAID I,.... As in the council and covenant of peace, when and where he declared his willingness to come into the world, and make satisfaction for the sins of his people; so when the fulness of ti...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me, Ver. 7. _Then said I, Lo, I come_] Christ became obedient even to the death, yea, that of the cross, Philippians 2:8. Christ'...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then_ When I understood and considered thy mind and will therein expressed, Psalms 40:6, _I said_ within myself, by a firm purpose; or unto thee, by way of promise, or engagement, _Lo, I come_ If the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then said I, Lo, I come, a solemn announcement of the Messiah's coming into the world, Malachi 3:1; IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK, in the roll of parchment which is Holy Writ, the one wonderful Book of al...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECY OF CHRIST'S SUFFERING AND PROPHETIC OFFICE. To the chief musician, for performance in liturgical services, a psalm of David, the Messiah Himself speaking through his mouth and pen. Cf Hebrew...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-10 The psalmist foretells that work of wonder, redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ. The Substance must come, which is Christ, who must bring that glory to God, and that grace to man, which it was i...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEN, when I understood and considered thy mind and will therein, expressed PSALMS 40:6. SAID I; either within myself, by a firm purpose; or unto thee by way of promise or engagement. LO, I COME. He m...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 40:7 said H559 (H8804) come H935 (H8804) scroll H4039 book H5612 written H3789 (H8803) Lo -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE RECOGNISES THAT IN ORDER FOR A MAN TO EXPRESS HIS GRATITUDE TO GOD RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES ARE NOT ENOUGH, AND THAT WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF HIM IS TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO HIS WILL, SOMETHING TO WHICH HE GLAD...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 40:7 It is quite evident that the sense which Christ had in His mission to this world before He came was one of pleasure. And unless you are to believe that every anticipation of Christ could b...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 40:7 I. When did Christ say these words? To what date does "then" refer? No numbers can reckon up the ages back, and no mind can fathom the depth of that eternity past since Christ's advent-not...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 40:5 So then there are two series of things which cannot be numbered God's mercies and man's sin. I. If we keep these two things close together in cur contemplations, they suggest for us very...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    These are the words of David: they are the words of all God's tried and believing people; but above all they are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. So complete is the union between Christ and...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    If our hearts are in trouble, as his was who wrote this Psalm, may we be able to act as wisely and as well as he did, and so obtain a like deliverance! Psalms 40:1. _I waited patiently for the LORD;...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. If I were to read this Psalm all through as referring to Christ, and to Christ only, I should be correct in so doing; but still, there is such a unity between...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's salvation extolled and prayer for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who seek God in all their perplexities shall rejoice and be glad in Him, for He will not only...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm of David is a consequence of the preseding. It is an ode of thanksgiving for liberation from the profound grief and sorrow under which he had groaned. Here he rises above the cloud, and as...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire; mine ears hast Thou opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required._ Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry._ WAITING FOR THE LORD There is a Divine law of waiting which has an essential connection with the larger law of giving....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:1. This psalm combines thanks for past mercies with a new request for God’s help. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:6 Offering sacrifices without faith, repentance, and obedience is useless (see Psalms 50:8; Psalms

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_: “To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David.” The psalm is addressed to “the Chief Musician,” that he might set it to music for use in public worship. We have no means of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE occasion of this psalm is some great deliverance which has been vouchsafed to the author of it, for which he desires to praise and thank God. Of this deliverance he speaks in Psalms 40:...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings ...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Corinthians 15:4; 1 Peter 1:10; 1 Peter 1:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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,...

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