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Psalms 119:97

Psalms 119:97

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

Here is, 1. David's inexpressible love to the word of God: O how love I

thy law! He protests his affection to the word of God with a holy

vehemency; he found that love to it in his heart which, considering the

corruption of his nature and the temptations of the world, he could not

but wonder at, and at that grace which had wrought it in him. He not

only loved the promises, but loved the law, and delighted in it after

the inner man. 2. An unexceptionable evidence of this. What we love we

love to think of; by this it appeared that David loved the word of God

that it was his meditation. He not only read the book of the law, but

digested what he read in his thoughts, and was delivered into it as

into a mould: it was his meditation not only in the night, when he was

silent and solitary, and had nothing else to do, but in the day, when

he was full of business and company; nay, and all the day; some good

thoughts were interwoven with his common thoughts, so full was he of

the word of God.

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