Ps. LXXIV.
V. 2. O think upon thy congregation, whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old.
The Lamb sacrificed from the beginning of the world, the God-Man, the Judge, the self-promised Redeemer to Adam in the garden!
V. 15. Thou smotest the heads of the Leviathan in pieces; and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wilderness.
Does this allude to any real tradition?[185] The Psalm appears to have been composed shortly before the captivity of Judah.
Ps. LXXXII. vv. 6-7.
The reference which our Lord made to these mysterious verses, gives them an especial interest. The first apostasy, the fall of the angels, is, perhaps, intimated.
Ps. LXXXVII.
I would fain understand this Psalm; but first I must collate it word by word with the original Hebrew. It seems clearly Messianic.