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confidence would be * trusting in an arm of flesh / and would mark ' a heart departing' from the Lord . But the reason upon which this confidence is called for is equall y inapplicable to the idea of a mere creature . It is his right to the most absolute homage ; it is his ability to bless ; it is his power as shewn in the dreadful consequence < of provoking his justice and incurring ' ' even but a little' of his righteous displeasure . "—Scrip . Test ., second edition , Vol . I . p . 307 .
The last two verses of the Psalm are thus rendered by Dr . Smith : 11 . s < Serve Jehovah with reverence , And rejoice with trembling . 12 . Do homage to the Son , lest he be angry And ye perish on the road ; When his wrath is even for a moment kindled ! Blessed are all who trust in Him !"
Did it never occur to our author , that since " the general tenor of Scripture , and many particular passages direct ( religious ) trust and confidence to be reposed only in the Almighty and Everlasting God , " it would be but reasonable to understand this passage in consistency with them , which may be done by a very obvious and altogether unobjectionable construction ? " Do homage to the Son , lest He ( Jehovah , referring to the preceding verse ) be angry , And ye perish on the road ( rather ' in your way' ); When His ( Jehovah ' s ) wrath is even for a moment kindled . Blessed are all who trust in Him ( Jehovah ) . "
But , though all difficulty is even thus removed , we must not omit to observe that the original word , rendered by Dr . S . and most other translators , Son and which truly has that meaning in the Chaldee dialect , cannot be proved to have it in pure Hebrew , but does signify pure , sincere , whence the words have been , with much probability of truth , translated , « ' Reverence sincerely , " or , " offer sincere homage , " " lest He be angry , " &c , which makes the whole passage relate to God alone .
Another remark of Dr . S ., that " the Messiah is clearly and plainly represented as an existing and acting person , at the time when the Psalm was written , " is answered by observing , that there can be little doubt of the Psalm having had an immediate application to David himself , whatever secondary and prophetic reference to the reign of the Messiah may be found in it , and that , therefore , it must necessarily speak of the anointed king as living and acting , though not intending by that language to convey any extraordinary doctrine respecting the nature of a greater Messiah afterwards to be raised up , but already appointed in the Divine counsels .
Sect . xiii . Psa . xl . 6—10 . 6 . " Sacrifice and offering thou Uast no delight in : Then a body thou hast prepared for me . Burnt-offering and sin-offering thou desirest not : 7 . Then I said , Behold , I come ! In the roll of the book it is written concerning me , 8 . To execute thy pleasure , O God , I do delight , " &c .
* The terms of the passage / ' says Dr . S ., " appear to require absolutely the sense of the abrogation of animal sacrifices by a person who declares that the very book which described those sacrifices had its superior reference to him , and that he himself would present the only sacrifice that should be worthy of Deity to accept . I must despair of ever acquiring consistent know-
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Dr . J . P . Smith * * Scripture Testimony to the Messiah . Ill
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1831, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2594/page/39/
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