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| How Like the Prophecy About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the Things Promised in Nathan’s Prophecy in the Books of Samuel.
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Chapter 9.—How Like the Prophecy
About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the Things Promised in
Nathan’s Prophecy in the Books of Samuel.
Wherefore also in the 89th Psalm,
of which the title is, “An instruction for himself by Ethan the
Israelite,” mention is made of the promises God made to king
David, and some things are there added similar to those found in
the Book of Samuel, such as this, “I have sworn to David my
servant that I will prepare his seed for ever.”1046
And
again, “Then thou spakest in vision to thy sons, and saidst, I
have laid help upon the mighty One, and have exalted the chosen One
out of my people. I have found David my servant, and with my holy
oil I have anointed him. For mine hand shall help him, and mine
arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not prevail against
him, and the son of iniquity shall harm him no more. And I will
beat down his foes from before his face, and those that hate him
will I put to flight. And my truth and my mercy shall be with
him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his
hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall
cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the undertaker of my
salvation. Also I will make him my first-born, high among the
kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore,
and my covenant shall be faithful (sure) with him. His seed also
will I set for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of
heaven.”1047
Which
words, when rightly understood, are all understood to be about the
Lord Jesus Christ, under the name of David, on account of the form
of a servant, which the same Mediator assumed1048
from the virgin of the seed of
David.1049
| 1049 Matt. i. 1, 18; Luke
i. 27. | For
immediately something is said about the sins of his children, such
as is set down in the Book of Samuel, and is more readily taken as
if of Solomon. For there, that is, in the Book of Samuel, he
says, “And if he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod
of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men; but my mercy will
I not take away from him,”1050
meaning by stripes the strokes of
correction. Hence that saying, “Touch ye not my christs.”1051
For what
else is that than, Do not harm them? But in the psalm, when
speaking as if of David, He says something of the same kind there
too. “If his children,” saith He, “forsake my law, and walk
not in my judgments; if they profane my righteousnesses, and keep
not my commandments; I will visit their iniquities with the rod,
and their faults with stripes: but my mercy I will not make void
from him.”1052
He did
not say “from them,” although He spoke of his children, not of
himself; but he said “from him,” which means the same thing if
rightly understood. For of Christ Himself, who is the head of the
Church, there could not be found any sins which required to be
divinely restrained by human correction, mercy being still
continued; but they are found in His body and members, which is His
people. Therefore in the Book of Samuel it is said, “iniquity
of Him,” but in the psalm, “of His children,” that we may
understand that what is said of His body is in some way said of
Himself. Wherefore also, when Saul persecuted His body, that is,
His believing people, He Himself saith from heaven, “Saul, Saul,
why persecutest thou me?”1053
Then in the following words of
the psalm He says, “Neither will I hurt in my truth, nor profane
my covenant, and the things that proceed from my lips I will not
disallow. Once have I sworn by my holiness, if I lie unto
David,”1054
—that is,
I will in no wise lie unto
David; for Scripture is wont to
speak thus. But what that is in which He will not lie, He adds,
saying, “His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the
sun before me, and as the moon perfected for ever, and a faithful
witness in heaven.”1055
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