Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
The prayer asks God for rescue from every transgression and for protection against being made a reproach in the eyes of the foolish. It treats transgression as a peril to be warned against and treats deliverance from sin and from its shame as a human need. It turns to God as able and willing to save those who so pray.
The same words belong to a prophetic portrayal of the inner struggles and suffering of Christ. They unveil the inward experience that lay behind the outward events of His life. They thus make His human trial and endurance intelligible from within.
The prayer asks God for rescue from every transgression and for protection against being made a reproach in the eyes of the foolish. It treats transgression as a peril to be warned against and treats deliverance from sin and from its shame as a human need. It turns to God as able and willing to save those who so pray.
The same words belong to a prophetic portrayal of the inner struggles and suffering of Christ. They unveil the inward experience that lay behind the outward events of His life. They thus make His human trial and endurance intelligible from within.