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Psalm 40
This psalm is a celebration of God's great goodness to him,
and all his people. In it there are some passages which cannot
belong to Christ, and some which do not properly belong to
David, or to that time and state of the church, but only to Christ,
and to the times of the New Testament. He praises God for
delivering him out of deep distress, ver. 1-5. Thence takes
occasion to speak of the work of our redemption by Christ, ver. 6-10. Prays for mercy and grace both for himself and for his brethren, ver. 11-17. To the chief musician, A psalm of David.
Verse 2. Pit - Desperate dangers and calamities. Rock - A place of
strength and safety. Established - Kept me from falling into
mischief.
Verse 3. And fear - Shall stand in awe of that God, whom they see to
have so great power, either to save or to destroy.
Verse 4. 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 are prone to trust:
which are called lies, because they promise more than they
perform.
Verse 5. 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.
Verse 6. 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 Messiah, and so the sense is,
God did not desire or require them, for the satisfaction of his own
justice, and the expiation of mens sins, which could not possibly
be done by the blood of bulls or goats, but only by the blood of
Christ, which was typified by them, and which Christ came into
the world to shed, in pursuance of his father's will, as it here
follows, ver. 7, 8. So here is a prediction concerning the cessation
of the legal sacrifice, and the substitution of a better instead of
them. Opened - Hebrew. bored. I have devoted myself to thy
perpetual service, and thou hast accepted of me as such, and
signified so much by the boring of mine ears, according to the law
and custom in that case, Exod. xxi, 5, 6. The seventy Jewish
interpreters, whom the apostle follows, Heb. x, 5, translate these
words, a body hast thou prepared me.
Verse 7. 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 Heb. x, 5, where this place is expressly
applied to Christ. Volume - These two words, volume and book
are used of any writing, and both express the same thing. Now
this volume of the book is the law of Moses, which is commonly
and emphatically called the book, and was made up in the form of
a roll or volume, as the Hebrew books generally were. And so this
place manifestly points to Christ, concerning whom much is said
in the books of Moses.
Verse 8. 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 only understand it,
but receive it with heartiest love, delighting both to meditate of it,
and to yield obedience to it.
Verse 9. 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 Eph. ii, 17. Not refrained - From preaching it, even to
the face of mine enemies.
Verse 11. 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.
Verse 12. 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.
Verse 15. Shame - Their sinful and shameful actions.
Psalm 40:
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