3. The misery of those who are not interested in his atonement —
[We see what bitter lamentation sin occasioned in him, who bore the iniquities of others, even though he knew that his sufferings would quickly end. What wailing then and gnashing of teeth will they experience, who shall perish under their own personal guilt, when they shall be shut up as monu- ments of God's wrath to all eternity^! Would to God that careless sinners would lay this to heart, while yet a remedy remains, and before they be finally separated from their God by an impassable gulf!]
e Job X. 2. f Isai. liv. 7, 8. s Luke xxiii. 31,
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Ps. xxii. 11 — 21. Be not far from vie, for tr'ouhle is near; for there is none to heljJ. Many bulls have compassed me : strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me tiufli their mouths, as a raveniiig and a roaring lion. I am
jjotired out like water, and all mg bones are out of joint : my heart is like wax ; it is melted in the midst of my botvels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd: and my tongue cleaveth to my jaivs : and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me; the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me : they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They
part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, 0 Lord ! O my Strength, haste thee to help me ! Deliver my soul from the sivord ; my darling
from the potver of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth ;
for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
IN many parts of the Psalms there is a strong resemblance between David's experience, and the experience of David's Lord ; so that the language used, may properly be applied to both. But in some parts David speaks in terms which are wholly inap- plicable to himself, and can be understood only as referring to Christ. This is particularly the case with respect to some expressions in the psalm before us. That a greater than David is here, there can be no doubt. The writers of the New Testament quote many parts of it as literally fulfilled in Christ ; in whom alone indeed the words which I have read had any appearance of accomplishment. We scruple not therefore to consider from them,
I. The sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ —
These are strongly marked,
1. In his complaints —
[Great was the number of his enemies, and most inveterate their rage against him. He compares them to fierce " bulls," and savage " lions," and ravenous " dogs." Under the emblem of " the fat bulls of Bashan," he represents the Jewish Go- vernors both in church and state, whilst the populace, both of Jews and Gentiles, were like dogs, set on indeed by others, but actuated by their own native ferocity, and by an insatiable