WITH A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION SHOWING DAVID'S PROPHECY OF CHRIST. BY A PILGRIM TO THE HOLY LAND. "I am small, and of no reputation: yet will I not forget Thy LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO., 21, BERNERS STREET, W. - 1872. 101. i. 75. DAVID'S PROPHECY OF CHRIST. WR RITERS on the Book of Psalms have too generally committed one of two errors. They have confined the meaning too much to the literal signification; or they have allowed themselves to wander too wildly after spiritual references: they have either seen none but David in the Psalms, or they have seen none but Christ. In the former case, they lose much of the spiritual good: in the latter, they so give themselves to fancied conceits, as to lose all reality. In the following pages the writer proposes to group together, as far as he is able, all those references to our blessed Lord which are to be met with in the Book of Psalms. That these passages do refer to Christ is evident from their being quoted by our Lord and his disciples; and if they do refer to Christ, then David must have known Christ, and if he knew Him, then we must expect many other portions of the Psalms to refer to him also, even when there is no proof of their so referring. As therefore it is possible that many other |