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Ps 40:8 King James I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
I delight to do thy will, O my God - To wit, in obeying the law; in submitting to all the trials appointed to me; in making an atonement for the sins of men. See the notes at Heb 10:7. Compare Phi 2:8; Mat 26:39.

Yea, thy law is within my heart - Margin, "In the midst of my bowels." So the Hebrew. The idea is, that the law of God was within him. His obedience was not external, but proceeded from the heart. How true this was of the Redeemer it is not necessary here to say.
 
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39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.