O Lord, truly I [am] thy servant, I [am] thy
servant
Not merely by creation, and as obliged by providential favours;
but by the grace of God, which made him a willing one: and he was
so, not nominally only, but in reality; not as those who say
Lord, Lord, but do not the will of God; whereas he served the
Lord cheerfully and willingly, in righteousness and true
holiness: and this he repeats for the confirmation of it, and to
show his heartiness in the Lord's service, and his zealous
attachment to him; and which he mentions, not as though he
thought his service meritorious of anything at the hand of God;
but that his being in this character was an obligation upon him
to serve the Lord, and him only, and might expect his protection
in it;
[and] the son of thy handmaid;
his mother was also a servant of the Lord; and had trained him up
in his infancy in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; so that
he was inured to it early, and could not easily depart from it;
thou hast loosed my bonds;
the bonds of affliction and death in which he was held; these
were loosed, being delivered from them, ( Psalms 116:3
Psalms
116:8 ) ; and the bonds of sin, and Satan, and the law, in
whose service he had been, which was no other than a bondage; but
now was freed from the servitude and dominion of sin, from the
captivity of Satan, and the bondage of the law; and therefore,
though a servant, yet the Lord's free man.