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I HAVE MORE UNDERSTANDING THAN ALL MY TEACHERS - Referring perhaps to
those who had given him instruction in early life. By constant
meditation on the law of God, he had, in the progress of years,
adv...
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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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THAN ALL MY TEACHERS. Because Divinely taught Divine wisdom....
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DISCOURSE: 708
DAVID’S BOASTING EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED
Psalms 119:97. _O how love I thy Law! It is my meditation all the day.
Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies:
f...
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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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I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies
are my meditation.
I HAVE MORE UNDERSTANDING THAN ALL MY TEACHERS: FOR THY TESTIMONIES
ARE MY MEDITATION. By the teaching of "th...
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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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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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MORE UNDERSTANDING... — The Rabbinical writers disliked the idea of
a scholar professing wisdom above his teachers, and rendered, “from
all my teachers I got wisdom,” which was certainly far more in
k...
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מִ כָּל ־מְלַמְּדַ֥י הִשְׂכַּ֑לְתִּי
כִּ֥י עֵ֝דְוֹתֶ֗יךָ...
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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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“THY WORD IS A LAMP, UNTO MY FEET”
Psalms 119:97
The psalmist cries, _O how love I thy law!_ He then proceeds to say
that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding
than all his...
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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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I have more (b) understanding than all my teachers: for thy
testimonies [are] my meditation.
(b) Whoever submits himself only to God's word will not only be safe
against the practises of his enemies,...
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MEM.
Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let
us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our
interest in what he here saith, from our interest in him....
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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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I HAVE MORE UNDERSTANDING THAN ALL MY TEACHERS,.... Such as had been
or would have been his teachers, who were bad ones in religious
matters; especially such might be the religious teachers in Saul's...
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I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies
[are] my meditation.
Ver. 99. _I have more understanding than all my teachers_] _i.e._ I
have understood by much reading more than...
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_MEM._
Psalms 119:97. _O how I love thy law!_ O Lord, thou knowest my love to
it is inexpressible: to then I appeal herein against all the censures
and calumnies of my enemies to the contrary. _It is...
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_ Mem._ God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom....
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I have more understanding than all my teachers, those who taught a
mere worldly wisdom; FOR THY TESTIMONIES ARE MY MEDITATION, and with
the knowledge which he had gained from studying the Word of God...
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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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UNDERSTANDING: he speaks not here of notional, but of spiritual, and
practical, and experimental knowledge. THAN ALL MY TEACHERS; than all
or most (for that general word is oft so understood) of those...
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Psalms 119:99 understanding H7919 (H8689) teachers H3925 (H8764)
testimonies H5715 meditation H7881
than all -...
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Psalms 119:99
By obeying the commands of Scripture we learn that these commands
really come from God; by trying we make proof; by doing we come to
know. Now how comes this to pass? It happens in seve...
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Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._
Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb
and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but «Thy word is set...
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Psalms 119:89. _For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven._
It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,»
settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes not,...
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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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_I have more understanding than all my teachers: for Thy testimonies
are my meditation._
INWARD VIRTUES TO THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL
1. By obeying the commands of Scripture we learn that these command...
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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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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:98 WISER... MORE UNDERSTANDING...
UNDERSTAND MORE. Because, in the setting of the psalm, neither MY
ENEMIES nor MY TEACHERS nor
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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 Chronicles 15:11; 2 Chronicles 29:15; 2 Chronicles 30:22; 2 Samuel
15:24;...