Christ and His Church in the Book of Psalms
Overview
This helpful commentary thoroughly dissects each Psalm, pointing out prophetic references, historical facts, and scriptural cross-references. Spending several pages on each, Bonar also references the original Hebrew text and analyzes the literary style of the Psalms.
Top Highlights
“Led by Heb. 2:6–9, we find in this Psalm the manifestation of the Lord’s name* in the dominion of the Second Adam, when he reigns over a restored world. It has been said that this Psalm might be called ‘Genesis 1 turned into a prayer;’ but it is more truly ‘the Genesis 1 of the new Earth.” (Page 28)
“In this state He acknowledged our sin; it was only ours he had to acknowledge; he spread it out before God on the cross; he continued to do so till it was forgiven to him as our substitute.” (Page 111)
“He stood for us, in our room, in our very place. He stood as substitute, and all the sins of all ‘that great multitude which no man can number’ were upon him, laid upon him by imputation. So dreadful was his position, so truly awful did it seem to him to be reckoned a sinner, that even this, apart from the wrath and curse, would have been sufficient to make him cry, ‘O, blessed the man to whom the Lord doth not impute sin.’” (Page 110)
“Thankfulness characterises it as much as hope, faith, joy, love, patience, characterised the previous Psalms” (Page 388)
“the breathed assent of righteous souls to the justice of their God, who taketh vengeance on sin” (Page 17)
Andrew Bonar (1810-1892) was a Scottish minister, theologian, and author. A man of devout faith, Bonar was quoted as having said "It was in the year 1830 that I found the Savior, or rather, that He found me and laid me on His shoulders rejoicing, and I have never parted company with Him all these sixty-two years."