I. “The author of the psalm.” This psalm is said to have been
composed by David: “A Psalm of David;” compare the notes at the
title of Psalms 3:1. It cannot be absolutely demonstrated that these
title...
The first and greatest of the -Passion Psalms," consecrated for us by
our Lord's appropriation of it to Himself. His utterance of the
opening words of it upon the Cross has been thought with much
prob...
XXII.
The fact that Jesus uttered from His cross the words of bitter woe
that begin this poem, have given and must ever give it a special
interest and importance. It was natural that Christian sentime...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 22
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON AIJELETH SHAHAR, A PSALM OF DAVID. The only
thing observable in the title of this psalm is the sense of the words
"Aijeleth Shahar", left untransla...
_A.M. 2944. B.C. 1060._
It is confessed, that David was a type of Christ, and that many
Psalms, or passages in the Psalms, though properly and literally
understood of David, yet had a further and mys...
As we come to this psalm we can only stop and wonder. For if we had
found it as a fragment with no date attached in some Egyptian papyrus
pile we would instantly have assigned its first half as a desc...