Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

The words " look upon me," whicli are not in St. Jerome's translation, are put by way of interpre- tation of the second word ^/N, which, however, is hut a repetition of the first. This psalm begins with the very words which Christ used on the cross, amorously complaining to His Father of His mysterious abandonment. Matt, xxvii. 46. Mark xv. 34. The whole psalm is prophetic of His sufferings. No fact in the life of David, or event in sacred history can be shown, to which it is applicable.

H. P. " Thou hast heard me ''IH^Jj? from the horns of the unicorns." This is somewhat embarassed. The Septuagint seems to have read ^nUj?.

These words are not in the Scptuagint, or text*

p. " They shall come and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done this." This, except the last clause, is the translation of St. Jerome. It may be underistoed of the messengers of Christ, who went forth to announce Ilis mercy, truth and justice to the nations from which a new people was to be formed, showing them that God had done what He had promised by the prophets. Pr. P. " whom the Lord hath made." The heavens are not here mentioned in the text, ■hut this reading has probably arisen from Ps. xlix. 6. Ps. xcvi. 6. Some ancient copies oftheVulgato have not this addition.

-Christ might call the sins of men His own, because He undertook to expiate them. Isaiah liii. 5. P. "Why art Thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?" By complaining that His cries and groans pass unheeded, He leads us to consider the mysterious cause of His apparent abandonment by His Father.