“ I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. ”
I understand more than the ancients - Hebrew, The old men. It does not refer, as the word “ancients” does with us, to the people of former times, but to aged men. They have treasured up wisdom. T...
CXIX. Praise of the Law. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginning with one of the twenty-two letters of the Heb. a...
ancients . elders, or the aged ones.
DISCOURSE: 708 DAVID’S BOASTING EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED Psalms 119:97-100 . O how love I thy Law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine e...
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I understand more than the ancients - God had revealed to him more of that hidden wisdom which was in his law than he had done to any...
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. Obedience is the key to the true knowledge of God and the h...
The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the same Hebrew letter. The subject is practically the...
Ancients. — Or, more probably, as the LXX. and Vulg., and the old versions generally took it, old men.
Psalms 119:1-176 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of the Law; and the beauty and power of the psalm lie i...
“Thy Word Is a Lamp, unto My Feet” Psalms 119:97-112 The psalmist cries, O how love I thy law! He then proceeds to say that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding tha...
Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term, "The Law," should be understood in its widest sign...
MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our interest in what he here saith, from our interest in hi...
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 o...
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. Ver. 100. I understand more than the ancients ] Whom yet age, use, and experience have taught much; but by the practical study of...
MEM. Psalms 119:97 . O how I love thy law! O Lord, thou knowest my love to it is inexpressible: to then I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of my enemies to the contrary....
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditatio...
By which reason he intimates that the practice of religion is the best way to understand it, and that men's vicious hearts and lives are the greatest hinderances of all true and solid knowledge of it...
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ; Psalms 119:23 ; Psalms 119:46 ; Psalms 119:141...
Psalms 119:99-100 By obeying the commands of Scripture we learn that these commands really come from God; by trying we make proof; by doing we come to know. Now how comes this to pass? It happens...
Psalms 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes n...
That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at the head of each distich; and the couplets are mos...
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for Thy testimonies are my meditation. Inward virtues to the truth of the Gospel 1. By obeying the commands of Scripture we learn that these comm...
EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses, every verse in each stanza beginning with its own...
Mem. God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom.
1 Kings 12:6-15 ; James 3:13 ; Jeremiah 8:8 ; Jeremiah 8:9 ; Job 12:12 ; Job 15:10 ; Job 15:9 ; Job 28:28 ; Job 32:10 ; Job 32:4 ; Matthew 7:24 ; Psalms 111:10
Because — The practice of religion is the best way to understand it.