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I tried to enjoy Bonar on the Psalms, but could not bear his hermenutic for the very reason you recommend him. I think his hermeneutic is not a Biblical one. I believe Luther was the one who proposed to "find Christ on every page". (I prefer Spurgeon, Kidner, Calvin, Plummer, Henry, & Horne.)
If Christ is there, we ought to find Him, but to place Him there when He is not there, seems to be an unfaithful interpretation of Scripture. I trust we would use the grammatical, historical & theological interpretation. I want to be clear, indeed many Psalms speak of Him (e.g. Parts of 2,16,22,41 etc...), but not all; unless you would say all references to God refer to Christ. In this case, we would have to say they speak of the Holy Spirit as well and back to my original point that the central person of the Psalms is God: Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
Regards,
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Brett McKinley
Member, Pilgrim Bible Church (1689 LBC)
Steilacoom, Washington.
Charles Bridges on Proverbs 16:21a, "There is either a superstitious scrupulousness, or a reckless indifference; sometimes conscience about everything, sometimes about nothing. Prudent wisdom gives consistency to the whole system."
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