William Kelly Major Works Commentary - Psalms 51:1 - 51:19

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William Kelly Major Works Commentary - Psalms 51:1 - 51:19


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This again is "To the chief musician, a psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him after he went unto Bathsheba." Blood-guilt is also confessed.

Plainly these two psalms are closely bound together, though the first is a public and general summons, the second a private and personal confession; which at the end the godly remnant will take up as their own in view of corruption and the blood-shedding of the Messiah, the great transgression. Real godliness is requisite, not sacrifice, in the former; in the latter, not sacrifice but genuine repentance. Ceremonial observances are in vain, when. God judges us even on the earth, yet more for eternity. Boasting of the law serves only the more to condemn the sinner.