10. But thou, O Lord, bemerciful unto me. How the hunted and
affrighted soul turns to her God! How she clings to the hope of mercy from God
when every chance of pity from man is gone! And raise me up. Recover me
from sickness. Jesus was raised up from the grave. That I may requite them.
This is a truly Old Testament sentence, and quite aside from the spirit of
Christianity; yet we must remember that David was a person in magisterial
office, and might without any personal revenge desire to punish those who had
insulted his authority and libeled his public character. Our great High Priest
had no personal animosities, but even he by his resurrection has requited the
powers of evil, and avenged on death and hell all their base attacks upon his
cause and person. Still the strained application of every sentence of this
psalm to Christ is not to our liking, and we prefer to call attention to the
better spirit of the Gospel beyond that of the old dispensation.
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