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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
m, MEM.--The Thirteenth Part. Ver. 97. MEM. O how love I thy law!.... The whole word of God, the preceptive part of it; the commands of the moral law, which are holy, just, and good, and to be loved: but they are not loved by carnal men, whose minds are enmity to them, and therefore are not and cannot be subject to them, but despise and reject...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O how love I thy law! The psalmist breaks out into a transport of delight. He does not say how much he loved God’s law, for the simple reason that he could not tell us that; but he says, “O how love I thy law!” Psa_119:97. It is my meditation all the day. That is the best proof of the psalmist’s love of God’s law, for love shows itself by its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. If we have God’s law always with us, we shall be wiser than the most crafty of our enemies; for, after all, there is nothing that puzzles and baffles cunning men like simple honesty. Do that which is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies,.... David had his enemies, as every good man has: and these are often cunning and crafty ones, at least in wickedness; many of them are wise and prudent as to natural things, wiser in worldly things and political matters than the children of light, and often lay deep schemes and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. David knew how well God’s Word had instructed him, and first he declared that he was wiser than his enemies; and, next, that he was wiser than his former instructors: —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have more understanding than all my teachers,.... Such as had been or would have been his teachers, who were bad ones in religious matters; especially such might be the religious teachers in Saul's time, when David was a young man: as the priests, whose lips should keep knowledge, and deliver it to the people, were in the times of Malachi; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. The man who rightly meditates upon this wondrous Book is, after all, the truly wise man. His wisdom is that of the heart, received by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and it has a power of understanding in it that will make him wiser than those who are merely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. There is more wisdom in obeying God than in all the ethics of heathen philosophers. It matters not whence they take their precepts and maxims, there is no wisdom like yielding one’s heart to God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I understand more than the ancients,.... Than those that had lived in ages before him; having clearer light given him, and larger discoveries made unto him, concerning the Messiah, his person and offices particularly, as it was usual for the Lord to do; or than aged men in his own time: for though wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, may be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. First his enemies, then his teachers, and now his elders, the ancients, —he could excel them all; and he gave the reason for it: “Because I keep thy precepts.” Take this Book away, and give the man all the human learning that he could ever acquire, and how little he would know,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have refrained my feet from every evil way,.... Of error or immorality, forbidden and condemned by the word of God; every way that is evil in itself, or leads to evil, and in which evil men walk; and though there may be many snares and temptations to walk in such a way, yet a good man cannot allow himself to walk therein, as others do; he has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. The Bible is a very sanctifying Book. If we keep its precepts, it holds us back from many things into which we might otherwise have run. “I have refrained my feet from every evil way.” Notice the universality of the obedience of a true saint. He does not say, “I will avoid...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. The man who cannot hate does not love; but he who loves...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have not departed from thy judgments,.... From the precepts of the word, from the ways and worship and ordinances of God; he had not wickedly and on purpose departed from them; whenever he did, it was through inadvertency, the weakness of the flesh, and strength of temptation; nor from the doctrines of the word, which he held fast, knowing of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Those who are taught of God are always well taught; they never unlearn what they have learned at the feet of Jesus. Those who backslide and apostatize were never truly taught of the Spirit of God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
How sweet are thy words unto my taste!.... Who had a spiritual one; and could discern perverse things, and could taste how good and gracious the Lord is: and so his words were sweet unto him; the doctrines of grace, the truths of the Gospel, were delightful and pleasant to him; like unadulterated milk, desirable by him: like good wine, that goes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Have you a spiritual taste, dear hearer? It is one thing to hear the Word it is another thing to taste it. Hearing the Word is often blessed, but tasting it is a more inward and spiritual thing; it is the enjoyment of the truth in the innermost parts of our being. Oh, that we were all as fond of the Word as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Through thy precepts I get understanding,.... Of the will of God; of his worship, the nature and manner of it; of his ordinances, their use and importance; and of his doctrines, and the excellency of them; therefore I hate every false way; of worship; all superstition and will worship, the commandments and inventions of men, and every false...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Through thy precepts I get understanding: — The practical parts of God’s Word not only appeal to our understanding but they give us understanding. That is a marvellous thing, but it is true. Sometimes, when you are arguing with a man who is dull of comprehension, you are apt to say, “Well, I can give you arguments, but I cannot give you an...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
n, NUN.--The Fourteenth Part. Ver. 105. NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet,.... The same Solomon says of the law and commandment, the preceptive part of the word, Proverbs 6:23; and the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it "law" here. This shows a man what is his duty, both towards God and man; by it is the knowledge of sin: this informs...