John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 55:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, etc.] Fear and dread of mind, and trembling of body; and horror hath overwhelmed me; or “covered me”; he was in the utmost consternation and surprise at what he apprehended would be the issue of things; so Christ in the garden is said to be “sore amazed”, (<411433>Mark 14:33); all which terror, fearfulness, trembling, and horror, arose from a sense of sin imputed to him, even of all the sins of his people, the faith of which must be nauseous to him, and the guilt thereof pressing upon him; and from a feeling of the wrath of God, and the curse of the law, which he endured in the room and stead of his people; and this shows the truth of his human nature, and the weakness and insufficiency of that, without his divine nature, to have performed the great work of redemption; also the evil of sin, the exceeding sinfulness of it, and the strictness of divine justice; and likewise the wonderful love of Christ in becoming a surety for his people, and what ease and pleasure they may take; all the pain, the trembling, and horror, were his, and all the joy is theirs.

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