Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 22:16

16. For dogs have compassed me, the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me, they pierced my hands and my feet .

So he calls his Enemies for their vileness and filthyness, for their insatiable, Greediness, and implacable sury and fierceness against him.

He explains who he means by Dogs, even wicked men, who are oft so called, not some few of them singly, but the whole Company or Congregation of them; whereby may be noted, either their great Numbers, or their consulting and conspiring together, as it were in a lawful assembly. Which was most litterally and eminently fulfilled in Christ.

These words cannot with any probability be applied to David, nor to the attempts of his Enemies upon him; for their design was not to Torment his Hands, or Feet, but to take a[illegible: 1+ letters]ay his Life. And if it be pretended that it is to be understood of him in a Metaphorical Sence, it must be Considered, that it is so uncouth and unusual a Metaphor, that those who are of this Mind cannot produce any one example of this Metaphor, either in Scripture or in other Authors, nor are they able to make any tolerable Sence o[illegible: 1+ letters] it, but are forced to wrest and strain the Words. But what need is there of such for[illegible: 1+ letters]ed Metaphors, when this was most properly and literally ver[illegible: 1+ letters]fied in Christ, whose Hands and Feet were really pierced and nailed to the Cross, according to the manner of the Roman Crucifixions, to whom therefore this is applied in the New Testament. See Mat. 27. 35. Mark 15. 24. Luk. 23. 33. Ioh. 19. 18. 23. 27.