The path of life] not specially of life after death, but of true life in the fellowship of God. In thy presence] the presence in which the Psalmist already lived (Psalms 16:8).

At thy right hand] RV 'in thy right hand.'

For evermore] The contrast which the Ps. draws is not, perhaps, so much between life here and life hereafter, as between life without God and life with Him. In its very nature, however, the latter life is enduring, and hence the Psalmist's words contain ananticipation (though it may be a dim and only semi-conscious one) of the immortality which Christ has brought to light.

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