John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 55:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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My heart is sore pained within me, etc.] At the civil war in his kingdom; at the battle likely to ensue between his forces and Absalom’s, and at the issue of it; (see <240419>Jeremiah 4:19); this was true of Christ in the garden, when his soul was exceeding sorrowful unto death, and he was in pain, as a woman in travail, as the word f716 here used signifies; and on the cross, when his heart, like wax, melted in the midst of his bowels; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me; (see <101514>2 Samuel 15:14); thus it was with the human nature of Christ, when he desired, if possible, the cup might pass from him.

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