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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 22:10
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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When I wept, etc.] Because of the sins of his people imputed to him; the hardness and unbelief of the Jews that rejected him; their impiety and profaneness in polluting the temple with their merchandise: he wept at the grave of Lazarus, and over the city of Jerusalem, on account of the blindness of its inhabitants, and the ruin coming upon them; and in his prayers at different times, especially in the garden and on the cross, which were offered up with strong crying and tears; (see <431135>John 11:35 <421941>Luke 19:41 <580507>Hebrews 5:7); [and chastened] my soul with fasting; or “my soul [being] in fasting” f938. The Targum renders it, “in the fasting of my soul”; the word “chastened” is supplied from (<193513>Psalm 35:13); and “soul” is put for the body, or for the whole person. Christ fasted forty days and nights in the wilderness; and often, through neglect of himself, and multiplicity of business, in preaching, and in healing diseases, was without food for some time: he seems to have been fasting the day that he suffered, when he made atonement for sin; and so answered the type on the day of atonement, when every man was to afflict his soul with fasting, (<031629>Leviticus 16:29); hence the Jews taunting at him gave him gall for his meat, and vinegar for his drink, (<196921>Psalm 69:21); and it follows, that was to my reproach; if he ate and drank, he was charged with being a glutton and a winebibber; and if he wept and fasted, as John his forerunner did, they reproached him with madness, and having a devil, (<401118>Matthew 11:18,19 <410320>Mark 3:20,21); and, as may be reasonably supposed, after this manner; “can this poor creature, that weeps, and mourns, and fasts, be thought to be the Son of God, a divine Person, as he makes himself to be, and his followers believe he is?” and so the blind Jews reason to this day.
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