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Verse 165. _GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY_] They have peace in their
conscience, and joy in the Holy Spirit; and
_NOTHING SHALL OFFEND_] Stumble, or put them out of the way....
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GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY - See the notes at Isaiah 26:3; compare the
notes at Philippians 4:6. They have great calmness of mind. They are
not troubled and anxious. They believe and feel that all things a...
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Psalms 119
The Law Written on Their Hearts and the Praise of the Word
This is the longest and most perfect Psalm in the whole collection. It
is an alphabetical acrostic. It is composed of 22 section...
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CXIX. PRAISE OF THE LAW. This is the longest and most artificial Ps.
in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each
beginning with one of the twenty-two letters of the Heb. alph...
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PEACE. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for
every blessing connected with peace.
OFFEND THEM. make them stumble....
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DISCOURSE: 713
BLESSEDNESS OF THOSE WHO LOVE GOD’S LAW
Psalms 119:165. _Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing
shall offend them._
THE force of principle is exceeding great, even where...
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NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM— Or, according to the original, _There is
no scandal to them: i.e._ "They shall fall upon no stumbling-block,
into no snare which their enemies lay for them;" or, "They shall...
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PSALMS 119
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Jehovah's Will in Relation to Human Character and Conduct, celebrated
in Twenty-two Alphabetical Stanzas, and by the aid of Eight
Comprehensive Synonyms.
ANALYSIS
(The...
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Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend
them.
GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY WHICH LOVE THY LAW - (; ; ). However the waves
of trouble beat on them from without like a sea-washed...
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119:165 them. (a-13) Or 'they have no stumbling-block.'...
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The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are
in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences
with the same Hebrew letter. The subject is practically the s...
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NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM] RV 'they have none occasion of stumbling.'...
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THE WORD OF GOD
PSALMS 119
JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
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NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM. — See margin. Perhaps the verse should
take the form of a wish: _great peace to the lovers of Thy law; no
stumbling-block to them._ Or, it may be, _great peace have they who...
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שָׁלֹ֣ום רָ֭ב לְ אֹהֲבֵ֣י תֹורָתֶ֑ךָ
וְ אֵֽין
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Psalms 119:1
IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this
psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of the Law;
and the beauty and power of the psalm lie in the un...
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JEHOVAH INSPIRES CONTINUAL PRAISE
Psalms 119:161
What a noble conclusion we reach in these closing stanzas! _I rejoice
at thy word; thy law do I love; seven times a day do I praise thee;
let my lips...
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Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not
particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately;
but the term, "The Law," should be understood in its widest
signi...
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Great peace have they which (c) love thy law: and nothing shall offend
them.
(c) For their conscience assures them that they please you, whereas
they who do not love you have the contrary....
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SCHIN.
Still prosecuting the same subject of suffering, here are the same
petitions lodged before the throne. The apostle to the Hebrews was
commissioned by the Holy Ghost to teach the church some ver...
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165._Great peace have they who love thy law. _If we take the word
_peace _for a prosperous or happy condition of life — a sense in
which the Hebrews often employ it — the word rendered
_stumbling-bloc...
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Psalms 119 is in general the law written in the heart. This gives it
an important place in the series of psalms. It is found distinctly
connected too with Israel's sorrows in the last days and their
p...
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GREAT PEACE HAVE THEY WHICH LOVE THY LAW,.... The Targum adds,
"in this world.''
Great prosperity, especially prosperity of soul, inward peace, peace
of conscience, peace in Christ, and from him, fl...
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Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend
them.
Ver. 165. _Great peace have they which love thy law_] The fruit of
righteousness shall be peace, Isaiah 32:17, even the peace...
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_Great peace have they which love thy law_ Hebrew, _great peace is_,
or _shall be, to the lovers of thy law_, that is, great inward peace,
satisfaction, and tranquillity of mind, arising from the sens...
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Great peace have they which love Thy Law, for in the midst of all the
battles of life they have the assurance of the grace of God promised
in the Word; AND NOTHING SHALL OFFEND THEM, causing the belie...
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_ Schin_ (and _ Sin_) The Believer's Fellowship with God in Prayer....
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89-96 The settling of God's word in heaven, is opposed to the changes
and revolutions of the earth. And the engagements of God's covenant
are established more firmly than the earth itself. All the cr...
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GREAT PEACE; either outward prosperity and happiness, which God in his
law hath expressly promised to good men; or at least inward peace,
satisfaction and tranquility of mind, arising from the sense o...
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Psalms 119:165 Great H7227 peace H7965 love H157 (H8802) law H8451
stumble H4383
Great -...
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Psalms 119:165
In the margin of the Bible the latter words of this verse are
rendered, "They shall have no stumbling-block."
I. Consider the character of the parties whom the Psalmist describes:
they...
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Psalms 119:153. _Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do
not forget thy law._
As much as if he said, «Lord, I do not forget thee; do not forget
me.» Thy grace has kept my memory; let thy g...
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Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will
keep thy statutes._
In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it
must be intense and earnest. «I cried w...
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Psalms 119:145. _I cried with my whole heart; hear me. O LORD: I will
keep thy statutes._
It is sweet to look back upon our prayers, if those prayers were
uttered with our whole heart, for it is no s...
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CONTENTS: The excellency and usefulness of the divine revelation set
forth and exhortation to all to make it their meditation and to be
governed by it.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: Great b...
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That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is
divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew
alphabet at the head of each distich; and the couplets are most...
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_Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend
them._
THE GLOWING TESTIMONY OF THE GOOD
This is the testimony of--
I. Philosophy. Moral remorse, malign passions, dark forebodin...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:1. This psalm celebrates the gift of
God’s law as the perfect guide for life. Its theme is echoed in
Psalms 19:1 and in such wisdom psa
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INTRODUCTION
1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David,
before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril (Psalms 119:9;
Psalms 119:23; Psalms 119:46;...
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EXPOSITION
This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any
other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses, every
verse in each stanza beginning with its own proper...
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Now as we get to Psalms 119:1-176, it is an extremely difficult psalm
for exposition, because each section seems to be more or less
independent of in itself, and each verse, many times, almost
indepen...
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1 Peter 2:6; Galatians 5:22; Galatians 5:23; Galatians 6:15;...
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Offend — Heb. they shall have no stumbling — block, at which they
shall stumble and fall into mischief....