Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/3_600_e.lzh/3_696.TXT

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\*Ver. 6. \\Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire\\,
&c.] These were desired, willed, and appointed by
God, and that very early, even from the times of our
first parents; and, when performed aright, were acceptable
to God, quite down to the times of the Messiah:
indeed, when offered without faith in Christ,
and with a wicked mind, to merit any thing at the
hand of God, they were always abominable to him; and
he likewise ever preferred love to himself, and of the
neighbour, obedience to the commands of the moral
law, and works of mercy to men, before all the sacrifices
of the ceremonial law, \\#1Sa 15:22 Ho 6:6
Mr 12:33\\; nor were these ever in such esteem with
him as the sacrifices of a broken and contrite heart,
or of praise and thanksgiving, \\#Ps 51:16,17\\; and
69:30, 31 nor were they ever regarded by him but
as they respected Christ; nor were they ever designed
to cleanse from sin, and take it away, but to lead to
the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ: but none of these
senses have place here: the meaning of the words is,
that it was not the will of God, at the time this passage
refers to, that legal sacrifices should continue any
longer; and that they should not be offered up, even
by good men, in the best manner, and to the best ends
and purposes; the time being come that a better sacrifice
should be offered, which was the sum and substance
of them, and was prefigured by them;
\*\\mine ears hast thou opened\\; or %dug%, or %bored% {m}; in allusion,
as is thought by many, to \\#Ex 21:6\\; though the
phrase rather signifies the formation and excavation of
the ear; or the preparing and fitting it for its use;
that is, to hearken to the will of his heavenly Father,
to become man, offer himself a sacrifice, and suffer and
die in the room of his people; to which he became
obedient, taking upon him the form of a servant, when
found in fashion as a man,; and was obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross; see \\#Isa 50:4-6\\; in
\\#Heb 10:5\\, the words are rendered as by the Septuagint,
%but a body hast thou prepared me%; and with it the
Arabic and Ethiopic versions agree; and so Apollinarius,
\*"flesh of
"mortal generation;"\*
\*a part of the body being put for the whole; and which, indeed, is
supposed: for unless a body had been prepared for
him, his ears could not have been opened; and it was
in the body, in human nature, that he was the obedient
servant; and this is to be understood, not only
of a preparation of this body, in the purposes, counsel,
and covenant of God; but chiefly of the formation
of it in the womb of the virgin, where it was
curiously wrought and prepared by the Holy, Ghost,
that he might have something to offer, and in it become,
as he did, an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a
sweet smelling savour;
\*\\burnt offering and sin offering
hast thou not required\\; any longer; this body being
prepared for the Messiah to be offered up in.

\*Ver. 7. \\Then said I\\, &c.] As in the council and
covenant of peace, when and where he declared his
willingness to come into the world, and make satisfaction
for the sins of his people; so when the fulness of
time was come for his appearance in human nature he
repeated the same; for of the time of his coming into
the world are these words interpreted, \\#Heb 10:5\\; when
sacrifice and offering God would not have any longer
continued, and when a body was prepared him, then he said,
\*\\Lo, I come\\; O  Father; as Apollinarius, in
his metaphrase, adds; that is, freely, and without
compulsion; immediately, at once, without any delay;
and he himself, and not another; and this not by
change of place, but by assumption of nature; taking
the body, or human nature, prepared for him, and
uniting it to himself; to which the word %lo% is prefixed
as a note of attention and admiration; the incarnation
of Christ being a wonderful affair, and of the utmost
moment and importance;
\*\\in the volume of the book [it
is] written of me\\; either in the book of divine
predestination, in the purposes and decrees of God, \\#Ps
139:16\\; or in the book of the Scriptures; either in
general, \\#Joh 5:39 Lu 24:27,44\\; or particularly
in the book of the Psalms, \\#Ps 1:50:2 2:2,6,7\\; or
rather in the book of the law, the five books of Moses,
since these were the only books or volumes that were
composed at the writing of this psalm; and it has respect
not to \\#De 18:15\\; nor \\#Ps 17:18\\; nor \\#Ex
21:6\\; but rather \\#Ge 3:15\\; and seeing the coming
of Christ into the world was not only appointed of
God, agreed unto by Christ, but was prophesied of,
and penned down in the sacred writings; therefore at
the appointed time he came, freely and willingly.
This book is called a volume, or roll, alluding to the
manner of writing formerly; when what was wrote
was finished, it was rolled about a stick in the manner
of a cylinder; and in this form is the book of the
law with the Jews to this day; \\see Gill on "Lu 4:17"\\.

\*Ver. 8. \\I delight to do thy will, O my God\\, &c.]
This he came down from heaven to do, and this he
did do, by preaching the Gospel, and working miracles;
and above all by Obtaining eternal redemption for his
people, which he effected by fulfilling the law, becoming
a sacrifice, and suffering and dying in their
room; all which were the will of God, and grateful to
him, and in doing which Christ took the utmost delight
and pleasure, \\#Joh 4:34 Lu 12:50\\;
\*\\yea, thy law is within my heart\\; either the whole moral law,
under which he was, as man, and the surety Of his
people; and which was written upon his heart, and
which he perfectly obeyed; or that particular law, injunction,
and command laid upon him by his father,
to offer himself a sacrifice, and lay down his life for
men; which he agreed to, had it in his mind, his heart
was set upon it, and he cheerfully complied with it,
\\#Joh 10:18 14:31\\.

{m} \^tyrk\^ %fodisti%, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis;
%perfodisti%, Tigurine version, Musculus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator;
%perforasti%, Cocceius.