John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 38:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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My wounds stink, [and] are corrupt, etc.] Meaning his sins, which had wounded him, and for which there is no healing but in a wounded Saviour, and by his stripes we are healed, (<235305>Isaiah 53:5); where the same word is used as here; Christ’s black and blue stripes and wounds, as the word signifies, are the healing of ours, both of sins, and of the effects of them; which, to a sensible sinner, are as nauseous and loathsome as an old wound that is festered and corrupt; because of my foolishness: as all sin arises from foolishness, which is bound in the hearts of men, and from whence it arises, (<410722>Mark 7:22); perhaps the psalmist may have respect to his folly with Bathsheba, which had been the occasion of all the distress that is spoken of both before and afterwards.

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