Psalms 119:130 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The entrance of thy words Into the heart of man; that is, the receiving of them in faith, and love, and meekness; giveth light To those that were before in darkness, even the light of true and saving knowledge. Hereby we learn our origin and our end, what we are by nature, and what we must be made by grace, in order to our final salvation; what God hath done for us, and the returns he expects from us; the enemies we have to encounter, and how we may be enabled to prevail against them; the mercy and justice, the love and wrath, the goodness and holiness of Jehovah, the joys of heaven, and the pains of hell. But the words פתח דבריךְ, are rendered by many ancient and modern interpreters, the opening of thy words; that is, the unfolding and explaining of them, opening the true sense, and showing thy mind and will therein. “Thy words are no sooner opened than there streams a light from them.” It giveth understanding to the simple To the most ignorant and unlearned persons, who are but willing to learn.