Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Psalms 119:56
This I had, &c.— That is, "this sweet composure of mind, this cheerfulness of spirit, under all these afflictions."
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This I had, &c.— That is, "this sweet composure of mind, this cheerfulness of spirit, under all these afflictions."
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Verse Psalms 119:56. _THIS I HAD, BECAUSE I KEPT THY PRECEPTS._] Though thou didst leave us under the power of our enemies, yet thou hast not left us without the consolations of thy Spirit. ANALYSIS...
THIS I HAD, BECAUSE I KEPT THY PRECEPTS - literally, “This was to me;” that is, This has happened to me; this has occurred. This joyful remembrance of thy law in the night of affliction Psalms 119:50;...
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...
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...
THIS. Supply Ellipsis (App-6) thus: "This [comfort]. had"....
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...
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. THIS I HAD, BECAUSE I KEPT THY PRECEPTS - "this" good I have had as my reward (namely, that thy statutes are "my songs in my pilgrimage," and that "I rememb...
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...
'This (comfort) I have that I have kept thy law.'...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
THIS I HAD, BECAUSE... — Literally, _This was to me,_ &c, _i.e.,_ this consoling recollection of the mercies of God, of His covenant grace, was to him, happened, or came to him, in consequence of his...
זֹ֥את הָֽיְתָה ־לִּ֑י כִּ֖י פִקֻּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃...
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...
COMFORTED BY GOD'S JUDGMENTS Psalms 119:49 Rays of comfort begin to steal into the psalmist's heart. _Thou hast caused me to hope; this is my comfort in my affliction; thy statutes have been my songs...
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...
(g) This I had, because I kept thy precepts. (g) That is, all these benefits....
ZAIN. While we contemplate the ever-blessed Jesus thus hanging upon the promises of the Father, we may in him, and through him, humbly adopt the same language, and remind God our Father of all his cov...
56._This was done to me. _I doubt not that the prophet, under the term זאת, _zoth, _comprehends all God’s benefits; but as he comes before God in relation to blessings then being enjoyed by him, he sp...
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...
THIS I HAD, BECAUSE I KEPT THY PRECEPTS. Either the comfort he had from the word, the pleasure and delight he had in it, being his songs in his pilgrimage, Psalms 119:50; see Psalms 119:165; or this k...
This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Ver. 56. _This I had_] This comfort, or this remembrance, or this ability to keep thy law. _ Because I keep thy precepts_] A strange reason, I kept it because...
_Thy statutes have been my songs_ The matter of my songs, my delight and recreation; _in the house of my pilgrimage_ In this present world, wherein I am a pilgrim, as all my fathers were. _I have reme...
_ Zain._ Patience in Persecution and Crosses....
This I had, that was his special privilege, BECAUSE I KEPT THY PRECEPTS, looking to the Word for directions to guide his conduct at all times. Thus the believers are ever rich and happy in the possess...
49-56 Those that make God's promises their portion, may with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us, will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in afflict...
THIS I HAD, this comfortable and profitable remembrance and contemplation of thy name and statutes, of which he spoke PSALMS 119:54,55, because I kept thy precepts; which if I had wilfully and wickedl...
Psalms 119:56 kept H5341 (H8804) precepts H6490 because - Psalms 119:165, Psalms 18:18-22;...
Psalms 119:55 I. The keeping of God's law is promoted by the remembering of God's name. The name of God includes all the attributes of God. (1) If I remember the attributes of God, I must remember amo...
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...
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...
_I have remembered Thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept Thy law._ THOUGHT It is the glory of man that he can think. We conquer Nature by thought. Thought has stretched out its hand, reached...
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
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;...
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...
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...
1 John 3:19; Psalms 119:165; Psalms 18:18...
This — This comfortable remembrance....