1738. What About the Psalms?

What About the Psalms?

The radicals were never more pronounced against any portion of Scripture, than they are against certain of the Davidic Psalms.

Let us seek the testimony of the Word itself, as to the inspiration of David.

"The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His word was in my tongue. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me" (2Sa_23:2-3). These were the last words of David, the man whom God raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Israel, and the sweet Psalmist of Israel.

Surely David wrote in the Spirit. Christ bore witness to this when He said: "David himself said in the Holy Spirit" (Mar_12:36, A. S. V.). Peter bore witness to this when he said; "This Scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake" (Act_1:16).

The destructive school, is particularly bitter against the imprecatory Psalms. They denounce them as barbaric, bloodthirsty, inhumanly voracious. They look upon these Psalms as the ravings of a man swept by uncontrollable passion. They imagine them to be expressive of the heartless cruelty of a past age. They entirely ignore the fact that these Psalms are prophetic; that they portray the moanings and the groanings of Israel in the days of Jacob's trouble, when oppressed by the antichrist.

The Book of the Psalms is the very Word of God. This is doubly established by the fact that they are continually quoted as inspired throughout the New Testament. The first chapter of Hebrews alone quotes from no less than seven Psalms, in its first chapter.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR