Psalms 105:15

Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

(Saying), Touch not mine anointed - a verbal allusion to . "Mine anointed" is (Hebrew) plural, and is explained by "prophets" in the next clause.

And do my prophets no harm. The anointing is the sign of the communication of the Spirit. "Mine anointed" are therefore those vessels of honour whom God fills with His Spirit: the consecrated bearers of God's revelation, "in whom the Spirit of God is," as Pharaoh said of Joseph (). As the three classes, prophets, priests, and kings, used in later times to be anointed, so the patriarchs, to whom God revealed Himself, bare all three offices combined, and so are termed "mine anointed." So it shall be again in the last days (; Joel 2:28; , "the two anointed ones;" , "kings and priests unto God and His (Christ's) Father"). In , Isaac is termed by God "a prophet." Abraham received communications from God in the two forms usual in prophecy, vision and dream, (.) So Isaac at Beersheba; Jacob at Bethel, Mahanaim, and Jabbok. The world durst not touch the anointed ones of Yahweh with impunity.