I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.
Ver. 96. I have seen an end of all perfection] viz. Here below.
Tempore tacta ruunt praetoria -
Fairest buildings, strongest persons, goodliest empires, have their times and their turns, their rise and their ruin, Omnis finis finem vidi (Syr. Interp.).
Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo;
Et subito casu quae valuere ruunt;
Omnia fortunae variis stant obvia telis:
Aut etiam longo tempore victa cadunt.
But thy commandment is exceeding broad ] It is endless, infinite, perpetual, and withal of largest extent; witness that of charity, which is the complement of the law, and the supplement of the gospel. David, though he had proceeded further in the discovery of divine truths than those before him, Psalms 119:99 , yet he was still to seek of that which might be known; like as those great discoverers of the newly found land confess still a plus-ultra.