Psalms 1 - Introduction

A.M. 2957. B.C. 1047.

This Psalm was put first as a preface to all the rest, as a short summary of the whole book, and a powerful persuasive to the study of it, and of the rest of the Holy Scriptures, taken from the blessedness which attends upon the study and practice of them. The subject of it is the difference of pious and ungodly men, both in this life and in that which is to come. It is not certain who was the author of it, but probably either the collector of this book of Psalms, or David himself, as Apollinarius and others think. We have here the holiness and happiness of a good man, Psalms 1:1; the sinfulness and misery of a wicked man, Psalms 1:4; Psalms 1:5; the ground and reason of both, Psalms 1:6.