Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Anointed, “Christ,” as the anointing of kings prefigured that of the Messias, which, in Hebrew, has the same import as the word χριστος has in Greek. Calmet.—Wronged. Lit. “by calumny,” or by any other mode of oppression. Bible.—Despise. Hebrew “hide my eyes,” through confusion. Calmet.—Prot. “to blind my eyes therewith.” Bible.—Septuagint have read nalim, “shoes,” instead of anlim. Calmet.—“Have I taken from the hand of any one a preset, to render me favourable, so much as a shoe? (upodema, or latchet) answer against me,” and so forth Bible.