Psalms 40:7
7. Then—in such case, without necessarily referring to order of time.
Lo, I come—I am prepared to do, &c. in the volume of the book—roll of the book. Such rolls, resembling maps, are still used in the synagogues. written of me—or on me, prescribed to me (2Ki 22:13). The first is the sense adopted by Paul. In either case, the Pentateuch, or law of Moses, is meant, and while it contains much respecting Christ directly, as Ge 3:15; 49:10; De 18:15, and, indirectly, in the Levitical ritual, there is nowhere any allusion to David.
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