John Trapp on Psalms 40:12
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Psalms40:12
Verſ. 12. For innumerable evils have compaſſed me] Heb. Have muſtered upon me. Many (or Millions) are the troubles of the righteous; none our of Hell over ſuffered more than they: an elegant exaggeration of their afflictions we have in this verſe, and ſuch as cannot well be underſtood by any, but thoſe that have been well beaten Porters to the Croſs of Chriſt.
Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me] i.e. The puniſhment of mine iniquities, Gen. 4.13. my ſin hath found me out. If this be taken of Chriſt, he is, Maximus patcatornus, the greateſt of ſinners by imputation, 2 Cor. 5.20. Iſa. 53. 6. for our ſins (which here he calleth his) he ſuffered; and here his bitter Agony in the Garden is Graphically deſcribed; neither is it abſurd to ſay, that as he bore our ſins in his own Body upon the Tree, he was firſt redeemed by himſelf, and afterwards we.
Therefore my heart faileth me] i.e. my wit, courage, counſel is waſted by earneſt thinking upon them. Scientia mea eis numerandis defica, as Kimchi gloſſeth,
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