I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. Word of affecting the regal power, and so forth Saint Ambrose—No more? Jesus Christ speaks. They have unjustly condemned me: But can I not rise again? or the words may be put in the mouth of his enemies. Shall we have any thing to fear from the dead? If we were to confine him only, he might perhaps escape. Calmet.—Hebrew “an evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more.” Prot.—“The word of the devil they poured out against themselves; he who hath slept, shall rise no more.” Saint Jerome—Yet lo may be explained, an non, “shall not he,” and so forth Septuagint have seen this insulting interrogation of the Jews who ridiculed what Christ had said of his future resurrection. Bert.—They determined to put him to death; but they could not prevent his glorious ( Worthington.) appearance again on the third day. Bible.—Those who explain this of David, say, that the sleep denotes a mortal illness, or a geievous fault, for which it was expected, that the king would die. Kimchi. Munster. and so forth