THE sorrows of Christ are more purely internal in the Gospels than in the Psalms. We have the history of the contradiction of sinners in the Gospels, but little of His feelings about them; whereas what I may call His own proper sorrows are fully brought out in John 12 and Gethsemane. In the Psalms it is much more His external sorrows. I am not speaking of atonement here. In Psa. 6 and 38 we get sorrows of death on the soul, but, literally, it is not Christ but the Remnant here, however far He may have in Spirit entered into them. It comes no doubt across us, as in Psa. 69, but far the most there is suffering from enemies; so even in Psa. 22, save the first verse which is not merely death—Psa. 102 is more His own sorrow. But in the Gospels we have only His own expressed—His mind as to the rest is not. Psa. 109 refers to enemies, so Psa. 71. Indeed the reference of the godly to his enemies is most frequent. In Psa. 116 again we shave death; but save Psalm Ica, and a small part of Psa. 69, I hardly know any that directly applies to Christ as this. The Gospels give it fully, as Heb. 5 also. As a rule these Psalms apply to the godly—the Remnant—with known exceptions.