The Pulpit Commentary — Hebrews — Section 59

(with whe.tovcr difference of me.nner nnd was not, like other Messianic psalms, sn>(• degree) they a.re e.esocie.ted together. Be it geated by and founded on the writer's own observed, however, the.tit is not the orir,innl circumstances e.nd experience. Delitzsch relation to God of the " Sanctifier" nnd the says well," The way of sorrows by which "sanctified," but their relation to him in the Dnvicl mounted to his earthly throne was a redemption, thnt is denoted by •! iv&s. type of that Via Dolorosa by which Jeans, The common sonship docs not consist in the Son of Damd, passed before aaccniling this, that he is Son by eternal generation to the right hand of the Fr.ther." Thero is and they by creation. It has been seen no psalm of which tho nltimato Messianic above that the term v1os is not applied to reference is to Christie.n believers more Christ in this Epistle with reference to his undoubted. The first words of it were eteme.l Being, but to his incarnation; and uttered by Jesus himself from the cross the human " sons" are not regarded e.s such (M11tt. xxvii. 46); and for its fulfilment till ma.do so by redemption. •o_ii.y,c!(ow, and in him, recognized by the evangelist~, seo at a.yta(oµho, rule the sense of •! lv&s. The Matt. xxvii. 39, 43; John xix. 23, 28. Tho view is the.t the one Father sent the SON general purport of the psalm ts as follows: into the world to be the Firstborn of many A persecuted sufferer, under o. feeling of sons. The expression, frequent in the Pen- being forsaken by God, poul'5 out his com- tateuch, "I nm ho thnt sanctifieth," may be plaint, and prays for succour; sudclenly, at cited in illustration of the meaning of the the end of ver. 21, the tone of the psalm passe.ge. For whioh cause he is not e.ebamod changes into one of confident anticipation of to oall thsm brethren ; i.e. in the Messianic deliverance and triumph, when the pB1\lmist utterances of the Old Testament, to which, shall pro.iso the Lord in the congregation 0f in accorclance with the pl.o.n nnd purpose of his brethren, when nil that fenr the Lord the Epist'le, reference is again made for shall join him in praise, when the "ends of tl.!e proof. 'l'he point of the quote.tions that earth" shnll turn to tho Lord, o.nd " all tho follow ( vers. 12, 13) is that the Messio.h, families of the nations" ehnll worship wiLh notwithstanding the position above the Isrnel. The close agreement of the le.tt,·r angels, shown above to be assigned to him, part of the psalm with the Messianic o.ntici- is represented e.lso e.s associating himself pations of prophecy is obviou3, o.nd woulrl iu with men as brethren, in dependence on one itself determine its Mcssio.nic import. Tho heavenly Fo.tbor. marked difference between this pstum nnd Ver. 12.-I will deolare thy Name unto my those previously quoted is tho.t tho typicnl brethren, in the midst of the Churoh (or, psalmist nppeo.rs here as a hunmn sufferer congregation) will I sing praise unto thee. previously to his triumph, thus o.nticipating Thie first citation is from Pa. ::uii. 22, the similar view of tho Messio.h in prophecy, quoted, it would seem, from memory or as notably in lso.. !iii. And hence this from a text of the LXX. different from ours, peo.lm is suitably quoted here o.s n striking 31rryf,,roµ.a1 being changed to luran•M;;, but and eo.rly anticipation of o. Messiah " per• with no difference of meo.ning. The psalm feeted through sufferings," and nesoeiuted ie attributed by tradition to David, being in sympathy with humo.n "brethron," tho entitled "o. p&Llm of David." Delitzsch verse actunlly quoted, iu which " he is not o.ntl Ebr1ml o.ccept' it o.e certainly his, con- ashamed to co.ll them brethren," being cluding, from its fOsition in the first book of sufficient to remind the readers of the wholo the pso.lms (i.-1::uii. ), that it was included of this o.epect of Messianio prophecy. in the collection me.de by David himself Ver. 13.-And again, I will put my trust (of. 2 Chron. xxiii. 18 with Pa. lxxii. 20). in him. Thero nro two pnssnges of the Old Others, o.e recently Perowne, think tho.t the Testament from which this mo.y be o. cito.- tact of the suffering o.nd humilio.tion de- tion-2 Snm. ::uii. 3 o.nd Iso.. viii. 17. In scribed, being beyond o.ny experienced by either co.se the origino.l is slightly o.lterod Do.vid himsolr, points to some other unlmown in the cito.tion, probe.bly with o. purpose; author. 'fhe conclusion, however, does not the empho.tic iyw being prefixed, and (,roµ.a, necessarily follow. Do.vid, writing " in being (suito.bly after this o.ddition) ple.ced Spirit," when under persecution by Saul, before instoa.tl of after 1mro,0ws. 'l'ho pur- may bo ooncoived as dro.wing II picture, with pose of this cbnnge mo.y be to bring into regard both to present humiliation o.nd to prominence tho thought that the Messinh expected triumph, beyond the facts of hie himself, in his humo.nity, puts his trust in own co.se, to.king his own experience ns God as well o.s the "brethren" with whom typioe.l of o. higher fulfilment. And the ho associo.tes himsolf. Tho p&esnge in minute dotnils of the eufforing described, 2 So.m. xxii. 3 is from the psalm of D,wid, llnswering so romo.rko.bly to thecircumsto.ncee written "in the do.y when tho Lonn had of the Crucifixion, certo.iuly suggest the idea delivered him out of tho h1mtl of nil hia of o. distinot prophetic vision. Still, there is enemies, nnd out of the ho.ml of Saul." U no reason for ooncluding tho.t tl111 pso.lm HEBREWS, . is given also in the Book of Psalms l\e Ps. 50 THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. [ OIi, U, 1-18,