Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 41:6
His heart — Even when he is with me, and pretends hearty affection, his heart is devising mischief against me.
His heart — Even when he is with me, and pretends hearty affection, his heart is devising mischief against me.
Verse Psalms 41:6. _AND IF HE COME TO SEE_ ME] This may relate to _Ahithophel_; but it is more likely that it was to some other person who was his secret enemy, who pretended to come and inquire after...
AND IF HE COME TO SEE ME - If he condescends to visit me in my sickness. The word me is not in the original; and perhaps the idea is not that he came to see the sufferer, but that he came to see “for...
Psalms 41 Faith and Unbelief in View of the Cross _ 1. Faith in Him and the Results (Psalms 41:1)_ 2. Unbelief and its hatred (Psalms 41:4) 3. The vindication of the Christ of the cross ...
XLI. THE PRAYER OF A SICK MAN AGAINST CRUEL AND TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 41:1. Kindness to the poor is a favourite virtue in the OT, but seems to have no natural place at the beginning of this Ps. We...
HE COME: i.e. the traitor; then Ahithophel, afterward Judas (see Psalms 41:9). SPEAKETH. Note the lying lips, the evil heart, the wicked slander....
The foregoing sketch of the blessedness of the compassionate man serves to introduce the Psalmist's description of his own case, partly as a foil and contrast to the heartless treatment he is experien...
And if one _of them_comes to see _me_, he speaketh falsehood. If one of these enemies comes to visit him, as was usual in sickness (2 Kings 8:29), he speaks vanity or falsehood (Psalms 12:2), makes hy...
PSALMS 41 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Regretting that Enemies and Friends should meanly Rejoice in his Sickness, the Psalmist nevertheless Perseveres in Prayer for Pardon and Recovery. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Ps...
_AND IF HE COME TO SEE ME, HE SPEAKETH VANITY: HIS HEART GATHERETH INIQUITY TO ITSELF; WHEN HE GOETH ABROAD, HE TELLETH IT._ And if he come to see me. "He" - i:e., the wicked enemy. HE SPEAKETH VAN...
The Psalmist has been brought low by sickness, and pronounces a blessing on those who consider such sufferers as himself (Psalms 41:1). His own experience has been of an opposite kind. His enemies hav...
The visitor who comes in pretended sympathy only seeks information to be maliciously used outside....
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...
AND IF HE COME. — Some one particular individual is here singled out from the body of enemies. TO SEE. — The usual word for visiting a sick person. (Comp. 2 Samuel 13:5; 2 Kings 8:29.) VANITY. — Bett...
_[Psalms 41:7]_ וְ אִם ־בָּ֤א לִ רְאֹ֨ות...
Psalms 41:1 THE central mass of this psalm describes the singer as suffering from two evils: sickness and treacherous friends. This situation naturally leads up to the prayer and confidence of the clo...
“LORD, HEAL MY SOUL” Psalms 41:1 This psalm was probably composed, with the adjacent ones, during the four years in which Absalom's conspiracy was being hatched. Perhaps the anxiety thus caused induc...
This whole song depends for interpretation on its opening beatitude. The man who is considerate toward the weak, who is compassionate, is blessed. His blessings are then described. Emphasize "him" and...
And if he come to see [me], he speaketh (e) vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it]. (e) For pretending to comfort me, he conspires my death in his hea...
_My countenance. Hebrew, "his," as Aquila, &c., read. (Calmet) --- Yet as the words are repeated, (ver. 12.) there seems to be a fault in the text, (Berthier) owing to v, "his" being taken in here, in...
These verses, and especially the 9th, serve to throw a light upon the whole Psalm. Reader, pray remark, with me, the several expressions here contained. Christ speaks in the 5th, 7th, and 8th verses,...
6._And if he come to see me, he speaketh lies. _What is contained in this verse relates to his false and treacherous friends. Those who were his professed enemies made no secret of their enmity agains...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 40 AND 41. In Psalms 40 then Christ is seen, not only in His passage through the sorrows which beset His way, if He took up the cause of the disobedient and guil...
AND IF HE COME TO SEE [ME],.... Meaning anyone of his enemies, when they came, as pretended, to pay him a friendly visit. A late learned writer x interprets this of Absalom, who visited his father whe...
And if he come to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it]. Ver. 6. _And if he come to see me_] That is, Ahithophel, or some such...
_Mine enemies speak evil of me_ Designing thereby to grieve my spirit, ruin my reputation, and sink my interest. _And if he come to see me_ If any of mine enemies visit me in my sickness, according to...
And if he, one of the adversaries whose enmity stood out above that of the rest, COME TO SEE ME, HE SPEAKETH VANITY, emptiness, hypocrisy; HIS HEART GATHERETH INIQUITY TO ITSELF, all forms of mischief...
A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING AND TRUST IN GOD. To the chief musician, a psalm of David, composed probably during the time of persecution by Absalom and, if not Messianic throughout, is at least in part ty...
5-13 We complain, and justly, of the want of sincerity, and that there is scarcely any true friendship to be found among men; but the former days were no better. One particularly, in whom David had r...
TO SEE ME; to visit me in my sickness, according to the custom. HE SPEAKETH VANITY, or _falsehood_; pretending sympathy with me, and friendship to me, whilst they plot mischief in their hearts against...
Psalms 41:6 comes H935 (H8804) see H7200 (H8800) speaks H1696 (H8762) lies H7723 heart H3820 gat
THE PSALMIST ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HIS PROBLEMS PARTLY ARISE BECAUSE OF HIS OWN SINFULNESS, AND THEN EXPLAINS TO YHWH ABOUT THE BEHAVIOUR OF HIS ENEMIES (PSALMS 41:4). Psalms 41:4 ‘I said, O YHWH, have...
You will see, dear friends, from these holy songs, that the saints of God in those olden days were not screened from trials and troubles, but were tempted in all points like as we are. If we happen to...
CONTENTS: Prayer for relief from sickness and confession of sins. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we suffer in our reputation, our first concern should be about our integrity and we may the...
A psalm of David, when sick with grief at Absalom's rebellion. Psalms 41:4. _Heal my soul._ It would appear that David was visited with some temporary sickness, prior to Absalom's rebellion, and that...
_And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it._ AN UNSYMPATHETIC VISITOR The picture drawn by the poet is a very common on...
_Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble._ THE PSALMIST’S AFFLICTION The central mass of this psalm describes the singer as suffering from two evils: sic...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 41:1. This is a lament in which a person has fulfilled his responsibilities to the poor and yet is suffering severely. He prays for God’s help and vindication....
INTRODUCTION This psalm, like the preceding one, is from the pen of David, and is addressed “to the chief musician,” for use in public religious services. It seems to have been composed with reference...
EXPOSITION THE forty-first psalm completes the first book of the Psalter. All the psalms contained in it are assigned to David by the titles, except Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1; Psalms 10:1;...
Let us turn at this time in our Bibles to Psalms 41:1-13. This is another one of the psalms that begins with a beatitude. The very first psalm begins with a beatitude, "Blessed is the man." Here again...
2 Corinthians 11:26; Daniel 11:27; Jeremiah 20:10; Luke 11:53;...