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| Of the 69th Psalm, in Which the Obstinate Unbelief of the Jews is Declared.
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Chapter 19.—Of the 69th Psalm, in
Which the Obstinate Unbelief of the Jews is Declared.
But when the Jews will not in the
least yield to the testimonies of this prophecy, which are so
manifest, and are also brought by events to so clear and certain a
completion, certainly that is fulfilled in them which is written in
that psalm which here follows. For when the things which pertain
to His passion are prophetically spoken there also in the person of
Christ, that is mentioned which is unfolded in the Gospel:
“They gave me gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me
vinegar for drink.”1110
| 1110 Ps. lxix. 21; Matt.
xxvii. 34, 48. | And as it were after such a
feast and dainties in this way given to Himself, presently He
brings in [these words]: “Let their table become a trap before
them, and a retribution, and an offence: let their eyes be dimmed
that they see not, and their back be always bowed down,”1111
etc.
Which things are
not spoken as wished for, but
are predicted under the prophetic form of wishing. What wonder,
then, if those whose eyes are dimmed that they see not do not see
these manifest things? What wonder if those do not look up at
heavenly things whose back is always bowed down that they may
grovel among earthly things? For these words transferred from the
body signify mental faults. Let these things which have been said
about the Psalms, that is, about king David’s prophecy, suffice,
that we may keep within some bound. But let those readers excuse
us who knew them all before; and let them not complain about those
perhaps stronger proofs which they know or think I have passed
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