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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 22:16 - 22:16
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dogs: Psa 22:1 *title Psa 22:20, Psa 59:6, Psa 59:14; Mat 7:6; Phi 3:2; Rev 22:15
compassed: Luk 11:53-54
assembly: Psa 86:14; Jer 12:6; Mat 26:57; Mar 15:16-20; Luk 22:63-71, Luk 23:4-5, Luk 23:10-11; Luk 23:23
they pierced: The textual reading is kaari, "as a lion my hands and feet;" but several manuscripts, read karoo, and others karoo in the margin, which affords the reading adopted by our translators. So the LXX ωρυξαν χειρας μου και ποδας, so also the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic; and as all the Evangelists so quote the passage, and apply it to the crucifixion of Christ, there seems scarcely the shadow of a doubt that this is the genuine reading; especially when it is considered, that the other contains no sense at all. The whole difference lies between ו, wav and י, yood, which might easily be mistaken for each other. Zec 12:10; Mat 27:35; Mar 15:24; Luk 23:33; Joh 19:23, Joh 19:37, Joh 20:25, Joh 20:27