Another distinguished writer says: "If we pro ceed to put together, in its most general features, the whole picture of David which results from all thee historical testimonies. we find the very foun dations of his character to be laid in a peculiarly firm and unshaken trust in Jehovah. and the brightest and most spiritual views of the creation and government of the world, together with a constant. tender and sensitive awe of the Holy One in Israel, a simple, pure striving never to be untrue to him, and the strongest efforts to return to him all the more loyally after errors and trans gressions. . . . His mouth continually over flows with heartfelt praise, of Jehovah, and his actions are ever redolent of the nobility inspired by a real and living fear of him (for the errors by which he is carried away stand out promi nently just because of their rarity). . . . in the clear daylight of Israel's ancient history David furnishes the most brilliant example of the noble elevation of character produced by the old re ligion" (Ewald, Hiss. of Israel, vol. iii, pp. 57, 58).
8. Literature. Dean Stanley, History of the Jewish Ch., ii:49-155; Porter, Giant Cities, p. 232; rerowne. Book cf Psalms i. xviii-xxiv; Krum macher, Dovid. der Koenig, Eng. transl. N.
i868. For the Analysis of Samuel, see \Vellhausen, Composition (1889), pp. 248-266; Kuenen, On derzock (1887), i :386 if., or Hist. Kris. Einleitung (189o), i. ii :37-62, 72; Budde, Richter nod Sam uel (1890), pp. 210-276. For the text, Driver, Ileb. Text of Som. (189o) • Wellhausen, Text d.
Sam. (1871). For the criticism of Chron icles, ib. Prolegomena, Eng. tr. (1885), p. 171 ff. See, further, W. R. Smith, 'David,' in Encycl. fira.,9th ed.; Keil, Intr. Old Testament; Ewald. History, Eng. tr., iii:54-2o3; Stade. Geschichte (1889), i:224-299; Kittel, Hist. of the Hebrews, Eng. tr. (1896), ii:35-49. 119-182; Cheyne, De vout Study of Criticism (1892). Mod. Criticism and the Preoehings of the Old Testoment, George Adam Smith, tool).
FiguratiVe. Jesus Christ is frequently called David. because he was the antitype of the former. He is the chosen one of God. who sprung from Bethlehem; the man according to his heart, that fulfills all his counsels. How noted his fidelity, meekness and humility! his love to God zeal for his honor and devout intimacy with him! Thrice, that is, in his conception, at his baptism and at his ascension, he was plentifully anointed with the Holy Ghost above measure, to he the Head of God's chosen people. Ile is the covenant-head of his spiritual seed, who are kings unto God. Ile is our sweet psalmist, who sings for himself and inditcs our songs and tunes our hearts to praise God. He is our great prophet and king, who instructs, forms and governs his church, the Israel of God. Through what debasement, labor, reproach, temptation from the world, from heaven. from hell, from relations, from friends, from foes. did he obtain his kingdom and glory! With what resignation, courage and steady eye to his Father's glory, and sure hope of a happy issue, he endured the whole. How he defeats and de stroys the lions, the hears, the giants of opposi tion! Ile fulfilled the law. destroyed death and the grave, and by the Gospel conquers the nations to the obedience of faith, and puts his chosen people in possession of the whole inheritance and dominion assigned them of God! How skillful, compassionate and righteous is he, in the govern ment of his subjects; and how active in preparing the temple above for his people, and in prepar ing them for it ! His ;nighty men. who, by the word of the gospel do wondrous exploits, are prophets, opostles, evange:ists. pastors and teach ers (Eph. iv it 1 if), and his faithful warriors are such as being discontented with their natural state of poverty, debt and disgrace, desert the service of the world, and are enlisted in his service (Ps. lxxxix: Ezek. xxxiv, xxxvii; kilos. iii:5). (See JESUS CHRIST.)