13. But I, as a deaf man, heard not. Well and
bravely was this done. A sacred indifference to the slanders of malevolence is
true courage and wise policy. It is well to be as if we could not hear or see.
Perhaps the psalmist means that this deafness on his part was unavoidable
because he had no power to answer the taunts of the cruel, but felt much of the
truth of their ungenerous accusations. And I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. David was eminently typical of our Lord Jesus, whose
marvelous silence before Pilate was far more eloquent than words. To abstain
from self-defense is often most difficult, and frequently most wise.
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