Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Ver. 3. Bind them upon thy fingers.] That thou mayest have them always in sight, as God hath his people: "Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands: thy walls are continually before me." Isa 49:16 The Hebrews here refer fingers to action, heart to meditation and retention. Men should have the law of God at their fingers ends. Any of us Jews, saith Josephus, being asked of any point of the law, answereth it as readily as if he had been asked his own name: they should also be "doers of the word, and not hearers only." The hand is οργανον οργανων a the instrument of action. David "lifted up both his hands to the word," Psa 119:48 as if he would pull it to him with both hands, as if he would do the deed in good earnest. The "heavens are the work of God's fingers"; Psa 8:3 the law should be of ours.
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