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It is not triumph over the grave here, but the heart exercised in distress, and the Jew dying in the confidence which the proved knowledge of Jehovah gives. Hence the Lord did not hesitate to adopt its words for Himself at that moment (Luk_23:46), only substituting as became Him "Father" for Jehovah; as now He risen from the dead authorises us to do in the faith of His redemption, as later the 'Spirit of adoption was given to be its power. But it is not as a whole His utterance, still less in resurrection power.
The closing rise of the soul from verse 20 is very fine after varied trials, with solemn sense of the judgment awaiting persecuting foes and the haughty wicked. He realises the pavilion of the divine presence, and the great goodness laid up for the God-fearing. It is the Spirit of Christ in the tried and delivered soul, rather than Christ personally.