rejection of sacrifices ( Thou wouldest not), and the Messiah's exhi bition of Himself to do the will of GOD, came after the perpetual offering of them, and not previously. What, then, is the volume of the book f We do not require to go far to learn ; it is the very page on which this very psalm was written. There are these two parallels : / have said, lo ! I come ; and, in the volume of the book it is written "^V, concerning Me, of Me : by this very ivriting I undertake to do Thy will. The Messiah places Himself as surety by both expressions ; and hence the presence, in the highest degree, of the Spirit of prophecy is perceived. David had before his eyes, and in his hand, the book in which the psalrn was written, and shows this very book as the written con tract of the Messiah ; comp. Neh. x. 1. From that very day when this psalm was written, it became incumbent on Christ, by some new way, to do the will of GOD. It is consistent with all this, that it is not said, in Thy book, or in the book of the Lord, as in Ps. cxxxix. 16, and Is. xxxiv. 16, but simply, in the book. Comp. note on the following verse. Augustine understands " the volume of the book," here, of the beginning of the book of Psalms ; but at that time the Psalms had not yet been collected into one volume. Others have understood it of the whole Scripture ; but even the writings of the Old Testament which then existed, had not been so collected into one, as to be called one book. — TO dsXripa ffovj Thy will) That GOD wills and has pleasure in some thing different from the legal sacrifices, was evident from this very fact, that the flesh of oxen and the blood of goats did not afford Him satisfaction ; but what His will is, we deduce from the very preparing of the Messiah's body, by which, when it was offered, we were to be sanctified ; ver. 10. Christ, in the Psalms, acknowledges and embraces this as the will of GOD.
8, 9. ' AvuTspov X's-yuv — TOTS s'/pqxsv, Above, ivhen He said — then said He) Paul urges the order of the words of the psalm which depends on the particle, Ttf, TOTS, then, showing that it falls on that very time when the prophet sang the psalm in the charac ter of Christ, and on that very point of time when, immediately after the words, Guoiav, x.r.X., sacrifice, etc., placed avuTspov, above, in the psalm, there sprang up the words, Ido-j, y%u, lo I 1 come. Therefore TK is altogether demonstrative of the present (comp. TK, TOTS, then, Ps. Ixix. 5), with an antithesis between