Psalm 40:2
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What does Psalm 40:2 mean?
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit
Which, with the following phrase,
out of the miry clay,
expresses the state and condition Christ was in at the time of
his bloody sweat, his crucifixion, and his lying in "sheol", the
pit or grave, sometimes rendered hell, which these figurative
phrases fitly signify; when it is observed, that he was made sin,
and had the sins of all his people on him; and, as the type of
Joshua, was clothed with their filthy garments; he might be truly
said to be in the miry clay; and also that he was made a curse
for them, and bore the wrath of God in their room and stead; and
was forsaken by his God and Father, and so endured both the
punishment of loss and sense, and what was tantamount to the
sufferings of the damned in hell; see ( Psalms 69:1 Psalms 69:2 ) ; to
which may be added the noisy insults of malignant men, and the
infernal fiends, who surrounded him on the cross; when he was in
an horrible, or "noisy pit", as the words may be rendered
F11, the allusion being to
subterraneous caverns or pits, in which the falls of water make
so horrible a noise as is intolerable; or to deep pits, into
which anything cast makes a great sound: and the issue of all
this was, that he was laid in the pit of the grave, and held
under the power and with the cords of death; from all which he
was delivered when he was raised from the dead, justified in the
Spirit, and glorified in the human nature by his God and Father;
and set my feet upon a rock;
on Mount Zion in heaven, whither he was carried up after his
resurrection; where he will remain until his second coming, being
set down at the right hand of God, in a most stable, firm, and
unalterable state, as well as an honourable one; for he will die
no more, and death shall no more have dominion over him;
[and] established my goings;
in treading the path of life, which was shown him at his
resurrection; in passing through the air, the territory of Satan,
at his ascension; and in his entrance into his glory, and making
his way to his Father's right hand and throne.
F11 (Nwav rwbm) "e cisterna sonitus", Pagninus, Montanus; "strepitus", Vatablus, the Targum & Kimchi; and to the same purpose Musculus, Cocceius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "out of the pit of sounding calamity", Ainsworth.
