Psalms 41:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here we find a single person speaking; and from what follows in Psalms 41:9, there can be no hesitation to say it is Christ. Will the Reader pause, and refuse this conclusion, because here is an acknowledgment of sin? I hope not. Jesus had no sin of his own, for he was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners. But as the sinner's surety, he stood forth with all the sins of his redeemed upon him. He stood, as the high-priest was commanded, on the day of atonement, to lay all the sins of the people upon the scape goat; so Jesus stood with all burden of his people's sins upon him, and as the Prophet said, the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all. As such Christ might well be supposed, in the name of his redeemed to say, 'Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee!' Leviticus 16:21; Isaiah 53:6.