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So, then, with these elucidations, we may perhaps see a little more clearly the sequence of the Psalmist's thought here God's forgiveness, and co-existing with that, God's scourging of the sin which He forgives; and both His forgiveness and the scourging, the efflux and the manifestation of the divine holiness. Now just let us look at these thoughts. Here we have
But when I first went to France the relations between the two organisations in no way suggested the ointment which ran down Aaron's beard to the skirts of his garment, the Psalmist's symbol of the unity in which brethren dwelt together. The Y.M.C.A. workers were perhaps a little prickly.
If the former, let us have no more to do with it; if the latter, let us seek to increase it. II. And now let me say a word about the Psalmist's reason for this aspiration. The word which he employs carries with it a picture which is even more vividly given us by a synonymous word employed in the same connection in some of the other psalms.
This psalmist's chief and practical help to us men and women today is that he became sure of God not because of any miracle or supernatural sign, on his report of which we might be content indolently to rest our faith, but in God's own providence in his life and in God's quiet communion with him through the organs God Himself has created in every one of us.
That, then, was the great choice that the psalmist's faith was turning to a choice that was no mere assent to a creed that had been fought for and established by previous generations of believers. It was the man's own proving of things unseen and his own preference of those against the crowd and a system of things seen, palpable, and very powerful in their attraction for the senses of humanity.
So, word for word, the two answer to each other. The difference is, that the one expresses the Psalmist's patient stillness of submission, and the other is his self-encouragement to that very attitude and disposition which he has just professed to be his. In the one he speaks of, in the other to, his soul.
The Psalmist's having sworn, was a very quickening consideration to excite him to the performance of his duty. In national covenanting, we always find, after the people of Israel and Judah had covenanted with the Lord, they made progress in reformation, and the land was purged of abominations and idols.
There may be a question what reason for the Psalmist's love is pointed at in this 'therefore. We shall hardly be satisfied with the slovenly and not very reverent explanation, that the word is introduced, without any particular meaning, because it begins with the initial letter proper to this section; nor does it seem enough to suppose a mere general reference to the excellences of the law of the Lord, which are the theme of the whole psalm.
It is roughly equivalent to the other Old and New Testament expression, the 'name of the Lord, the manifested and revealed side of the divine nature. And that is the hiding-place into which men may go. We have the other expression also in Scripture, 'the light of Thy countenance, and that helps us to apprehend the Psalmist's meaning. 'The light of Thy face' is 'secret. What a paradox!
JOHNSON. 'There must be a diseased mind, where there is a failure of memory at seventy. A man's head, Sir, must be morbid, if he fails so soon. My friend, being now himself sixty-eight, might think thus: but I imagine, that threescore and ten, the Psalmist's period of sound human life in later ages, may have a failure, though there be no disease in the constitution.
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