Salmos 38:2

Psa 38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Ver. 2. For thine arrows stick fast in me ] i.e. Sicknesses of body and troubles of mind, Job 6:4 Psalms 18:14 . The Jewish doctors say, that he had a leprosy for six months; and that the Divine presence was taken away from him; so that he complained not without uause (R. Obadiah). But these were sagittae salutis, saith Chrysostom; arrows of salvation, love tokens from the Lord, Dens amat quos sagittat (Aug.), not unlike Jonathan’s arrows, 1 Samuel 20:36 , and he had been forewarned of them by Nathan the prophet, 2 Samuel 12:9-12 , and so bore them the better. Praevisa iacula minus feriunt, Darts foreseen are in a manner dintless.

And thy hand presseth me sore ] Heb. Thou lettest down thy hand upon me. Now, God’s hand is a mighty hand, 1 Peter 5:6 , and the weight of it is importable, but that una eademque manus, &c.