False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Unjust accusers stand up to charge the speaker with deeds he never knew, and the cry for vindication voices divine justice itself rather than private spite or a hunger for revenge. The thirty-fifth psalm is a prophetic song that lays open the inner life of Christ in His mortal struggle to the death with the adversary. In that struggle He endures temptation in His own soul, and by that suffering He is fitted to rescue others when they are tempted.
The rising of false witnesses foretells the accusations brought against Jesus at His trial, a prediction met in the record of Matthew 26:59-60. The same words meet ordinary human need, steadying the soul under trial with comfort and with assurance that God is both willing and able to save.
Unjust accusers stand up to charge the speaker with deeds he never knew, and the cry for vindication voices divine justice itself rather than private spite or a hunger for revenge. The thirty-fifth psalm is a prophetic song that lays open the inner life of Christ in His mortal struggle to the death with the adversary. In that struggle He endures temptation in His own soul, and by that suffering He is fitted to rescue others when they are tempted.
The rising of false witnesses foretells the accusations brought against Jesus at His trial, a prediction met in the record of Matthew 26:59-60. The same words meet ordinary human need, steadying the soul under trial with comfort and with assurance that God is both willing and able to save.