“ Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. ”
Their heart is as fat as grease - They are prospered. They have health, property, influence, comforts of all kinds. heaven appears to smile upon them, and it seems as if it were one effect of a w...
(c) Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law. (c) Their heart is indurate and hardened, puffed up with prosperity and vain estimation of themselves.
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...
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. Their heart is as fat as grease - They are egregiously stupid, they have fed themselves without fear; they are become flesh-brutalized, an...
Their heart is as fat as grease— Or, Is gross, as with fat. Or, Gross as fat. Houb. By this fatness of the heart, stupidity, dullness, and earthly-mindedness are designed, as pinguis Minerva...
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. Their heart is as fat as grease - as obese as fat ( Deuteronomy 32:15 ): a mind reprobate [incapable of judging and appreciating,...
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...
As fat as grease. — For this emblem of pride and insensibility, see Psalms 17:10 ; Psalms 73:7 ; Isaiah 6:10 .
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...
Profiting from Affliction Psalms 119:65-80 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; it is good for me that I have been afflicted; thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me . Here is the far-off in...
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...
TETH. As the first verse of the foregoing portion proved that Jesus was the speaker; so the last verse of this portion as plainly points to the same. None but the ever-blessed Jesus had such testimo...
Their heart is as fat as grease ,.... Or tallow, a lump of it, fat or grease congealed. That is, the heart of the above proud persons, who abounded in riches, were glutted with the things of this wo...
Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law. Ver. 70. Their heart is as fat as grease ] Gross as grease; curdled as milk or cheese, say the Septuagint, congealed and baked as it we...
The proud have forged a lie against me A slander, charging me with hypocrisy toward God, and other sins. But I will keep thy precepts My practice shall confute their calumnies. “Every disciple of...
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. David here tells us...
Their heart is as fat as grease; the sense is either, 1. They are stupid, and insensible, and past feeling, not affected either with the terrors or comforts of God's word. So the like phrase is u...
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 119:64-67 . The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for...
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...
The proud have forged a lie against me. The slanderer, the corrupt, the pious I. The tongue of the slanderer. Slander is-- 1. Malicious. Its inspiration is envy, jealousy, or revenge. 2....
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...
Teth. The Realization that God's Humiliation of Man is Salutary.
Acts 28:27 ; Isaiah 6:10 ; Psalms 17:10 ; Psalms 73:7 ; Psalms 119:16 ; Psalms 119:35 ; Psalms 40:8 ; Romans 7:22
Fat — They are stupid and insensible.