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Psalms 39
Psalm 39:9
During the suffering of his last illness Calvin was heard repeating the words of Hezekiah: "I did mourn as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward," followed by those of this Psalm; "I was dumb; I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it."
—John Ker.
Psalm 39:13
There is no mistaking the reality which prayer, in the sense of communion with God, was to him. When he heard of his appointment as Master he was staying in a friend's house. "He leant his head against the mantelpiece and prayed aloud, "Oh spare me a little that I may recover my strength, before I go hence and be no more seen"."
—Life of Benjamin Jowett.
References.—XXXIX.—International Critical Commentary, vol. i. p344. XXXIX:1.—R. C. Trench, Sermons in Westminster Abbey, p114. XXXIX:1 , 2.—C. Vince, The Unchanging Saviour, p21. J. B. Mozley, University Sermons, p223. XXXIX:4.—J. Budgen, Parochial Sermons, vol. i. p157. XXXIX:4 , 5.—Bishop Bethell, Sermons, vol. i. p154. XXXIX:12.—J. Budgen, Parochial Sermons, vol. i. p166. XL.—International Critical Commentary, vol. i. p350. XL3.—J. Stalker, The New Song, p9. XL5.—W. L. Alexander, Sermons, p191. XL7.—H. Scott Holland, Logic and Life, p110. XL7 , 8.—Bishop Bethell, Sermons, vol. i. p478.
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