The law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Ver. 72. The law of thy mouth is better unto me, &c.] For what is all this trash to that true treasure, those lively and life giving oracles? Dionysius worthily preferred Plato before Aristippus, because the one was ever craving money of him, but the other books. It is reported of Plato, that for three choice books he gave thirty thousand silverlings or florins. Now, what were all his books to the Bible? To blame, then, was that Anabaptist, who said in Melancthon's hearing that he would not give two pence for all the Bibles in the world (Joh. Maul. loc. com. 78).