1.-the Volume of the Book. Exodus 21:5,6; and Psalm 40:6-8

"If the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: then his Master shall bring him unto the Judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his Master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever" (Ex. 21:5,6). In this passage, we see, in the case of the Hebrew servant whose ear was bored through with an awl in token of his engagement to serve his Master forever, the principle of willing loving obedience; and this is commonly, and rightly, I believe, thought to explain the following word of Christ in. Psa. 40, " Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened, or digged (see margin): burnt offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, Thy law is within my heart."-The truth is, our blessed Lord him-self was tile antitype of the Hebrew servant of Ex. 21, devoted as he was to God's service, the one who offered Himself as a victim, to die on the cross for the redemption of sinners. This, then, being the case, may we not gather from hence, what "volume" it is of which the Psalmist here speaks? To my mind it is a simpler idea than is commonly thought. " THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK," wherein these things are written of Christ believe to be, not the volume of the eternal counsels of God, as some have supposed, but THE BOOK OF THE LAW, bearing reference, as it typically does in this Ex. 21, to our blessed Lord, as the only Hebrew servant who ever did, or ever could, without imperfection or failure, do the will of his Master, within whose heart the law of God was, whose love to His God and Father was such, as to lead Him to give Himself up, without any reserve, to serve Him forever.