How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
Ver. 103. How sweet are thy words unto my taste!] Heb. to my palate; Syr. coelis gutturis mei, the roof of the mouth resembleth heaven. Epicurus was worthily blamed by Ennius for that dum palate quid sit optimum iudicabat, coeli palatium non suspexerit, while he looked so much to his palate, he looked not at all to the heavenly palace. David was no hog of his herd; he had sweetmeats to feed on that the world was not aware of.
Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth] Mercury's priests were wont to say, when they did eat their figs, γλυκεια η αληθεια, Truth is sweet. The comedian saith, after Solomon, ηδυ το φως, "Light is sweet." The pleasures of the mind are far beyond those of the body.