Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD (Ps.
25:7)
When David makes mention of the sins which he had committed
in his youth, he does not mean by this that he had no remembrance of any of the
sins which he had committed in his later years; but it is rather to show that
he considered himself worthy of so much the greater condemnation.
In the first place, considering that he had not begun only
of late to commit sin, but that he had for a long time heaped up sin upon sin,
he bows himself, if we may so speak, under the accumulated load; and, in the
second place, he intimates, that if God should deal with him according to the
rigour of law, not only the sins of yesterday, or of a few days, would come
into judgment against him, but all the instances in which he had offended, even
from his infancy, might now with justice be laid to his charge.
As often, therefore, as God terrifies us by his judgments
and the tokens of his wrath, let us call to our remembrance, not only the sins
which we have lately committed, but also all the transgressions of our past
life, proving to us the ground of renewed shame and renewed lamentation.
Besides, in order to express more fully that he supplicates a free pardon, he
pleads before God only on the ground of his mere good pleasure. (Commentaries)
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