2. Now to this Psalm is prefixed a title
arising out of an historical event; but before the event is described
we are instructed as to the scope, time and application of the
incidents underlying it. First we have: For the end of
the meaning of that David. Then there follows: When
the Ziphims came and said to Saul: behold, is not David hid with
us? Thus David’s betrayal by the Ziphims awaits for its
interpretation the end. This shews that what was actually being
done to David contained a type of something yet to come; an innocent
man is harassed by railing, a prophet is mocked by reviling words, one
approved by God is demanded for execution, a king is betrayed to his
foe. So the Lord was betrayed to Herod and Pilate by those very
men in whose hands He ought to have been safe. The Psalm then
awaits the end for its interpretation, and finds its meaning in the
true David, in Whom is the end of the Law, that David who holds the
keys and opens with them the gate of knowledge, in fulfilling the
things foretold of Him by David.