CONTENTS The greater part of this Psalm is written in a way of prayer; and some portions of it in a way of prophecy: It forms a very important subject, in which the Church is highly concerned. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. Psalms 109:1 From the authority of the Holy Ghost, by the mouth... [ Continue Reading ]
If, while we read these words, we call to our recollection Psalms 22:1 and Psalms 69:1, we shall perceive an obvious correspondence. John the Evangelist tells us, that the Jews charged Christ with being a Samaritan, and having a devil; John 8:48; and how very striking is that passage: for the love t... [ Continue Reading ]
We cannot be at a loss to discover to whom Christ here refers; when Jesus had dipped the sop at the table, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon; and after the sop, Satan entered into him. Here we see the prediction fulfilled; John 13:26. The expression of Satan standing at his right hand,... [ Continue Reading ]
As the authority we have for applying all that is here said in a way of denunciation, to the person of Judas, is derived particularly from the apostle Peter's quoting this passage in direct reference to him, I beg the Reader to turn to it, Acts 1:1 and read the Apostle's whole address by way of conf... [ Continue Reading ]
All these awful predictions, let the Reader remember, are spoken of a particular person, and that person, we have seen, is Judas. But that the Judas's of every age and generation are equally implicated, is evident, because his children, that is the followers of his principles, haters of Christ and h... [ Continue Reading ]
How beautiful, by way of further illustration, doth this verse here come in! Judas's crime, and that of the whole Jewish nation with him, was the rejection of Christ, the truly poor and needy man, whose heart was broken by the burden of the sins of his people and the rebuke of his Father. Judas saw... [ Continue Reading ]
The continuation of the awful consequences of the rejection of Christ, by Judas and his family, is here set forth; and the passage closeth with an assurance that it shall be so. And here I must again remark, in order to keep the remembrance of it alive, as well in my own soul, as in that of the Read... [ Continue Reading ]
Here we have the blessed Jesus, in his human nature addressing the Father, as in the days of his flesh. How very interesting to his people are those cries! How impossible but to take part in them! and when the soul is led out by faith to view him in all the circum stances of his life and ministry; w... [ Continue Reading ]
Concerning Christ, we know, that it was prophesied of him, that he had set the Lord always before him, for he was at his right hand, that he should not be moved, Psalms 16:8. And of him, and him only, did the sacred writer speak, when, describing him by the spirit of prophecy, ages before he came, h... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, over the contents of this very, very solemn Psalm. Behold in the traitor Judas, the head and representative of all the despisers of Jesus, the awful but sure consequences of rejecting the Lord of life and glory: and think what must be the end of all such workers of iniqui... [ Continue Reading ]