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I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great assembly.

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Christ, the Perfect Proclaimer

Multiple commentators, including Barnes, Spurgeon, and Gill, see this verse as a prophecy perfectly fulfilled by Jesus Christ. He is the ultimate preacher who did not hide or conceal God's plan. He openly declared God's righteousness, faithfulness, salvation, lovingkindness, and truth to the 'great assembly'—the crowds who came to hear Him.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Psalms 40:10

18th Century

Theologian

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart - The word “righteousness” here may denote the divine views on the subject of righ…

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

On Psalm 40:10

19th Century

Preacher

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkin…

John Calvin

John Calvin

On Psalms 40:10

16th Century

Theologian

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. Here it is necessary to observe the accumulation of terms that are employed to denot…

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John Gill

John Gill

On Psalms 40:10

17th Century

Pastor

I have not not hid your righteousness within my heart
Meaning not the essential righteousness of God, though that wa…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Psalms 40:6–10

17th Century

Minister

The psalmist foretells that work of wonder: redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Substance, who is Christ, must come. He must bring that…