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The whole works of Robert Leighton, archbishop of Glasgow (1825)
The whole works of Robert Leighton archbishop of Glasgow - 1825 Author:Robert Leighton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL, ON PSALMS IV., XXXII., And CXXX. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON. BY THE Rev. Dr. PHILIP DODDRIDGE. M... more »EDITATIONS ON PSALM IV. Title, To the chief Musician on Neginoth, a Psalm of David. Many of the calamities of good men look like miseries, which yet, on the whole, appear to have conduced greatly to their happiness ; witness the many prayers which they poured out in those calamities, the many seasonable and shining deliverances which succeeded them, and the many hymns of praise they sang to God their deliverer; so that they seem to have been cast into the fire on purpose that the odour of their graces might diffuse itself all abroad. The Seventy Greek Interpreters seem to have read the word which we render To the chief musician, something different from the reading of our present Hebrew copy, i- e. Lemenetz, instead ofLemenetzoth; and therefore they render it, Ei'r riis, as the Latin does, in finem, to the end. From whence the Greek and Latin Fathers imagined, that all the Psalms which bear this inscription refer to the Messiah, the great End and the accomplishment of all things; a sentiment which was rather pious than judicious, and led them often to wrest several passages in the Psalms by violent and unnatural glosses. Yet I would not morosely reject all interpretations of that kind, seeing the Apostles themselves apply to Christ many passages out of the Psalms and other books of the Old Testament, which, if we had not been assured of it by their authority, we should hardly have imagined to have had any reference to Him. Nor is it probable that they enumerated all the predictions of the Messiah which are to be found in the prophetic writings, but only a very small part of them, while they often assure us tha...« less