Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 14:1
The fool — The wicked man. Good — That is, actions really good or pleasing to God.
The fool — The wicked man. Good — That is, actions really good or pleasing to God.
PSALM XIV _The sentiments of atheists and deists, who deny the doctrine_ _of a Divine providence. Their character: they are corrupt,_ _foolish, abominable, and cruel_, 1-4. _God fills them with te...
THE FOOL - The word “fool” is often used in the Scriptures to denote a wicked man - as sin is the essence of folly. Compare Job 2:10; Psalms 74:18; Genesis 34:7;...
Psalms 14 _ 1. The days of Noah repeated (Psalms 14:1)_ 2. Salvation and glory (Psalms 14:7) Psalms 14:1. As it was in the days of Noah so shal
PSA 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text presen...
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64. THE FOOL: i.e. the impious man. Compare Psalms 10:4; Psalms 53:1. NO. no sign of a. GOD*. The primitive text was "Jehovah" (App-4.), but the _Sopherim_ say that th...
_The fool_ A class of men, not a particular individual. The word _nâbâl_here used for _fool_denotes moral perversity, not mere ignorance or weakness of reason. -Folly" is the opposite of -wisdom" in i...
The universal depravity of mankind, and its cause....
_David describeth the corruption of a natural man: he convinceth the wicked by the light of their conscience: he glorieth in the salvation of God._ To the chief musician. _A Psalm_ of David. _TITLE._...
PSALMS 14 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Vile Person's Testimony to Prevalent Wickedness, when confirmed by Jehovah, occasions Warning and Prayer. ANALYSIS Stanza I. (Psalms 14:1), An Impious Man revels in Wi...
_THE FOOL HATH SAID IN HIS HEART, THERE IS NO GOD. THEY ARE CORRUPT, THEY HAVE DONE ABOMINABLE WORKS, THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD._ This psalm is probably altered by David from his 53rd Psalm, to fi...
14:1 (o-0) With this Psalm compare Psalms 53 . fool (p-10) _ Nabal_ . see Psalms 53:1 ....
The fool is a character who in Scripture is marked by wickedness as well as by what we call folly. His defect is moral as well as mental. IN HIS HEART] His denial is a practical one, and he really act...
This Ps., like Psalms 12, gives a picture of a corrupt state of society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7, which some...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
FOOL. — Heb., _nabal,_ from a root meaning “to wither;” hence flat, insipid (_insipiens_). But this is not therefore speculative atheism, but practical — a denial of the moral government of God — so t...
לַ † מְנַצֵּ֗חַ לְ דָ֫וִ֥ד אָ֘מַ֤ר נָבָ֣ל...
Psalms 14:1 THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1; Psalms 12:1. It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the former in its attribution to "the fool" of the heart spe...
THE BOUNTY OF GOD AND THE FOLLY OF MEN Psalms 13:1; Psalms 14:1 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1. Four times the persecuted soul cries, _How long...
Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is r...
"To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David." The fool hath said in his heart, (a) [There is] no God. They are (b) corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good. (a) He sho...
David. The word psalm being appropriated to some, while others are styled hymns, &c., does not hinder the latter from being also psalms or spiritual songs, to be set to music: so the insertion of Davi...
CONTENTS This Psalm comes home recommended from the comment the Holy Ghost was pleased to make of it, by the Apostle Paul. Romans 3:10. The principal subjects of it are; The universal sin of man; his...
_NO GOD!_ ‘The fool bath said in his heart, There is no God.’ Psalms 14:1 I. I AM GODLESS UNTIL CHRIST REDEEMS ME.—‘The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.’ It is not that I have the sli...
Many of the Jews are of opinion that in this psalm there is given forth a prediction concerning the future oppression of their nation: as if David, by the revelation of the Holy Spirit, bewailed the a...
In Psalms 14 the evil has reached its climax in God's sight What is ever true of flesh is now brought up under God's eye at the time when He is going to judge. Man rises up in pride before Him: yea, H...
THE FOOL HATH SAID IN HIS HEART,.... This is to be understood not of a single individual person, as Nabal, which is the word here used; nor of some Gentile king, as Sennacherib, or Rabshakeh his gener...
Psalms 14:1 «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. » The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good. Ver....
_The fool hath said in his heart_ In his secret thoughts, or within himself, what he is afraid or ashamed to utter with his lips; _There is no God_ Or none that concerns himself with the affairs of ma...
OF THE CORRUPTION OF NATURAL MAN AND THE LORD'S SALVATION. This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was specially impressed with the wickedness of men, when he felt the oppression...
The fool, the spiritually worthless, the madman in things pertaining to his soul's salvation, HATH SAID IN HIS HEART, it is his steady secret thought and delusion, THERE IS NO GOD. A person who denies...
PSALM 14 The design of this Psalm is to describe and bewail the terrible wickedness and corruption of mankind, and especially of ungodly men, and of his own enemies. David showeth the atheism and corr...
Psalms 14:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) David H1732 fool H5036 said H559 (H8804) heart H3820 God H430 corrupt...
‘For the Chief Musician. Of David.' This is yet another psalm dedicated to the Choirmaster and part of the Davidic collection. ‘The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, t...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of late;...
CONTENTS: The corruption and foolishness of man. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Man in his natural state has become odious to God, utterly incapable of answering the ends of his creation, until...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool,_ the _Nabal,_ devoid of foresight, says, _there is no God;_ no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification of...
_The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ THE PRACTICAL DENIAL OF GOD THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and starts a train of thought whi...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:1. This is a community lament. Humans in general do not seek after God and thus they treat God’s people cruelly. Compare Psalms 53:1.
INTRODUCTION “It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm. The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may,...
EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7, that this psalm was written during the sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by David (De We...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if...
1 Samuel 25:25; Ephesians 2:12; Ephesians 2:1; Genesis 6:11; Genesi