This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
Ver. 56. This I had] This comfort, or this remembrance, or this ability to keep thy law.
Because I keep thy precepts] A strange reason, I kept it because I kept it; but every new act of obedience fitteth for a following act, Romans 6:19. As in sin, so in grace, Mark 4:24, acts increase habits, and facilitate the work.