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There is no room here for the question, "Of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?" In Isaiah 53. For the psalm is not written in the third person, as is the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah. But then the question comes - Whose is the darkness, and whose is the light? We reply - Primarily, the writer's, whoever he may have been, whether David or any other Old Testament saint. Hence the title given above to this homily. The phrase is a figurative one, and signifies, "the first light of the morning." In this psalm we see the light of early morn breaking forth after the deepest darkness of the blackest night. But what can be the meaning of the expression," the hind of the morning"? A reference to Furst's Lexicon will be found helpful. A Psalm of David" We accent the heading, here and elsewhere "a Psalm of David," unless adequate reason to the contrary can be shown. The title of the psalm is significant literally, it reads, "To the chief musician upon Aijeleth Shahar. Both these extreme views should be avoided, and we venture to ask for the careful and candid attention of the reader, as we move along a specific path in the elucidation of this psalm. It has gathered round it the study of expositors of most diverse types - from those who see in it scarcely aught but a description beforehand of the Messiah's suffering and glory, to those who see in it scarcely any Messianic reference at all, and who acknowledge only one sense in which even the term "Messianic" is to be tolerated, even in the fact that light gleams forth after the darkness. This is one of the most wonderful of all the psalms. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?…