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And did not God look,-look with favor, for that is the meaning here,--to David, when he was of that contrite spirit which dictated the 51st psalm? And was he poor, literally? Was he not a king, and immensely rich? "Poor," in the text, must then mean "poor in spirit," as is he whom Christ, in his sermon on the mount, pronounces "blessed." "And of a contrite spirit.". "Contrite ;" smitten,--wounded, literally, contrite in spirit,-smitten, wounded in heart :-broken-hearted: that is, deeply affected with a sense of sin--penitent. It is such a feeling as David had after Nathan reproved him: such as the woman who washed the Saviour's feet with tears had such as the publican had such as Peter had when he "went out and wept bitterly." Who "trembleth at my word;"-not only feareth greatly the judgVol. XII. No. 10. 10 |