b Thou ſeeſt how much of it ſuffer, and that for thy ſake ; as Heb. 12. he ſaid verſe 7. # Thou knoweſt them thoroughly, and all their injurious and wicked devices, and implacable malice againſt mey and all their impiery and contempt of thee ; For which they des ſerve to be utterly and ſpeedily deſtroyed.
20 Reproach hath broken my heare &, and I am full of heavineſs: and I looked fer ſome + to take pity, but + Heb. i there was none I, and for comforters, but I found none, «mens |
k For reproach is moſt grievous to the moſt generous and noble Wi" Me Souls; And beſides, this was the higheſt degree, and the worſt kind of Reproach, being caſt upon him for God's ſake, and upon God alſo for his ſake» 1 i-e- Few or none, as that word is fie- quently uſed, both in Sacred and profane Writers For whether you underſtand it of David, or of Chriſt, there were ſome who | pitied both of them. £0M ; |
2I They gave me alſo gall » for my meat, * and in *Mat: | my thirſt they gave me vinegar to drink #. I'D wy
-» Or, Poiſon; or, bitter Herbs, Hoſea 10+ 4+ See Deut- 29. 18. J eh Jerem- 9. I5- Lament+ 3- 19+ In ftead of giving me that piry and —_ J
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comfort which my condition required, they barbarouſly added ro my Afffiions. = Theſe things were Metaphorically fulfil'ed in David, but Properly and Literally in Chriſt, the deſcription of whoſe Sufferings was principally intended here by the Holy Ghoſt; who therefore direQted David's pen to theſe words, and poſlibly informed him, that this ſhould be accompliſhed in Chriſt. Which may not ſeem improbable to him that conſiders the following Im- precations, which are ſo many and ſo ſevere, that they may ſeem toexceed the bounds of Juſtice and Charity, if they be applyed ro Davia's Enemies, as a recompence for their Injuries done to him whereas they moſt deſcryedly and fitly belong to the enemies, an murderers of Chriſt.
22 * Let otheir table p become a ſnare before them 9: *Rom if and that which ſhould have been for their welfare, let it 9, to. become a trap r. | |
s Theſe and the following Words, which are expreſſed-in the form of Imprecations, are thought by divers to be the only Pre- diftions, and that the Imperatives are put for the Furures, as ſomes rimes they are. And accordingly they tranſlate the words thus ; Their table ſhall become @ ſnare, &c- But if they be Imprecations, here was tufficient Cauſe for them- And beſides, it is apparent, that they were not the DiQates of Humane Paſſion, but of Divine Inſpiration, and proceeded from a juſt Zeal for God's Glory, as hath been obſerved before. p i-e- Their Food and all their Pro- viſions for Neceſlity or Delight ; either for Body or Soul; for the Curſes here following are Spiritual and Eternal, as well as Tempo- ral. And ſo this may comprehend their Sacrifices and other Legal Ordinances, and the Word of God: All which became to the Jews through their own default, a great occaſion of ſtumbling at Chriſt; And this puniſhment ,in their Table, exaQly anſwers to their fin, in giving Chriſt Gall for his Meat, verle 21- 4q Heb. Before them, te,. Their Table or Meat, which is ſer before them, which is the uſual expreſſion in this caſe, as Gen- 18+ 8+ 2 Kings 6 22+) become 8 Jnare, i. e: The occaſion or inſtrument of their deſtruftion. Is isa Metaphor taken from Birds, or Fiſhes, that are commonly en- ſnared and taken with their Baits. » Heb. And as for their great Peace ( which the Plural Number ſeems to import, all chat Tran» quility and Proſperity which they do, or may enjoy) let it be # Trap. Or, And their Peace-off:rings ( which Sacrifices may be here mentioned, becauſe the offerers did partake of them, and feaſt upon them; and ſo this agrees with the Table expprefſcd in the former Clauſe) a Trap. And ſo they were to the unbelieving Jews, whoſe falſe conceir of the everlaſtingneſs of the Mofſaical Diſpenſation, was one cauſe of thfir Reje&ion of Chriſt. Or thus, And for Re- compences, (i» e, An'abundant compenſation of all 'their Injuries) and for a Trap. For thus it is rendred by divers, both Antient and. Modern Interpreters, and which is more conſiderable, by the As poſtle, Rom. 11. 9. EE es #8 I,
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5s Not the Eyes of their Bodies (for ſo this was not accompliſhed in David's, nor in Chriſt's enemics) but of their Minds, thar they may, not diſcern God's Truth, nor their own Duty, nor the way of Peace and Salvatian. Puniſh them in their own kind : As they that ſhut their Eyes and would not ſee, ſo do thou judicially blind them. This was threatned and inflicted upon the Few, 1/s. 6- to. Fohn 12: 39, 49+ ft Thisalſo belongs to the Loyns of their Minds or Souls; Of which we read Luke 12. 35+ 1 Pet+1- 13: The Loyns of the Body are the ſeat of Strength, and the great Inſtrument of Bo« dily Motions and Aftions- Which being applyed to the Mind; the Senſe may be; Either, 1. Take away their Courage and Alacrity; and give them up to Puſillanimity, and Terror, and Deſpair. , Oc rather,2. Take away their Strength and Ability for Spiritual ARi-' ons. In the fermer branch, he wiſheth thatthey may nor be able to ſee, or chuſe their way; And here, that they may not be ablero walk in it,nor to execute the good Counſels which others may give chem. As on the other ſide, when God giyes men ſtrength, they Ire able not only to walk, but to Run in the ways of God, Pſalr 119. 32. Cant. I. 4: Iſa. 40.31» ;
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