Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 119:70
(c) Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
(c) Their heart is indurate and hardened, puffed up with prosperity and vain estimation of themselves.
(c) Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
(c) Their heart is indurate and hardened, puffed up with prosperity and vain estimation of themselves.
Verse Psalms 119:70. _THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE_] They are egregiously stupid, they have fed themselves without fear; they are become _flesh-brutalized_, and given over to vile affections, and h...
THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE - They are prospered. They have health, property, influence, comforts of all kinds. heaven appears to smile upon them, and it seems as if it were one effect of a wicked...
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...
THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE— Or, _Is gross, as with fat._ Or, _Gross as fat._ Houb. By this fatness of the heart, stupidity, dullness, and earthly-mindedness are designed, as _pinguis Minerva_ sig...
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...
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE - as obese as fat (Deuteronomy 32:15): a mind reprobate [incapable of judging and appreciating, noun (G356...
119:70 me, (f-10) See vers. 78 and 87....
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...
FAT AS GREASE] dull, gross: cp. Job 15:26; Isaiah 6:10....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
AS FAT AS GREASE. — For this emblem of pride and insensibility, see Psalms 17:10; Psalms 73:7; Isaiah 6:10....
טָפַ֣שׁ כַּ † חֵ֣לֶב לִבָּ֑ם אֲ֝נִ֗י תֹּורָתְךָ֥...
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...
PROFITING FROM AFFLICTION Psalms 119:65 _ Before I was afflicted, I went astray; it is good for me that I have been afflicted; thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me_. Here is the far-off interest of...
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...
TETH. As the first verse of the foregoing portion proved that Jesus was the speaker; so the last verse of this portion as plainly points to the same. None but the ever-blessed Jesus had such testimony...
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...
THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE,.... Or tallow, a lump of it, fat or grease congealed. That is, the heart of the above proud persons, who abounded in riches, were glutted with the things of this world...
Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law. Ver. 70. _Their heart is as fat as grease_] Gross as grease; curdled as milk or cheese, say the Septuagint, congealed and baked as it were...
_The proud have forged a lie against me_ A slander, charging me with hypocrisy toward God, and other sins. _But I will keep thy precepts_ My practice shall confute their calumnies. “Every disciple of...
_ Teth._ The Realization that God's Humiliation of Man is Salutary....
Their heart is as fat as grease, altogether without sensitiveness; it is impossible to make an impression upon the majority of the godless, to convince them of the wrong of their mockery; BUT I DELIGH...
65-72 However God has dealt with us, he has dealt with us better than we deserve; and all in love, and for our good. Many have knowledge, but little judgment; those who have both, are fortified again...
THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE; the sense is either, 1. They are stupid, and insensible, and past feeling, not affected either with the terrors or comforts of God's word. So the like phrase is used...
Psalms 119:70 heart H3820 fat H2954 (H8804) grease H2459 delight H8173 (H8773) law H8451 heart is as fat -...
Psalms 119:64. _The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have...
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...
_The proud have forged a lie against me._ THE SLANDERER, THE CORRUPT, THE PIOUS I. The tongue of the slanderer. Slander is-- 1. Malicious. Its inspiration is envy, jealousy, or revenge. 2. Mischie...
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...
Acts 28:27; Isaiah 6:10; Psalms 17:10; Psalms 73:7; Psalms 119:16;...
Fat — They are stupid and insensible....