Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. If he, any one among my enemies. Bible.—The Scriptures often pass from the plural to the singular, (Bert.) to comprise every one distinctly. Bible.—Yet Saint Augustine and so forth read “they came,” and so forth omitting if, as some of the Septuagint edit. do likewise: though inaccurately, according to Saint Jerome and Sun. Calmet.—It occurs in the Rom. copy, and Grabe inserts it in a smaller type. The sense is not altered. Bible.—The conspirators affected to shew David some marks of civility, to obtain their ends. The Jews often strove to entangle Jesus, by their questions, (Matthew 19:3 and 22:17. 24 and John 8:3) while Judas continued in his company, to gratify his own avarice, and to betray him. Calmet.—Such were their vain projects. Bible.—Those who came maliciously to hear Christ, blamed him as an enemy to the law, or as one who cast out devils by Beelzebub. Worthington.