Verse 11
11. Thou wilt show me the path of life Thou wilt cause me to see ( make known to me) the path of life, contrasted with to see corruption, in previous verse. “Life,” here, is not natural life, but spiritual and eternal life, as in Psalms 36:9; Proverbs 15:24; Jeremiah 2:13; Daniel 12:2; John 4:10; John 4:14. “Path of life,” is the same as Matthew 7:14. Its application to Christ as “the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” is indisputable; and as a typical groundwork it is also a declaration of the faith of the psalmist in the resurrection of the body, and the life after death.
In thy presence Literally, Before thy face. The idea is, that of a subject standing before the face of a king, a place of honour; the particle eth, rendered “in,” expressing endearment. He stands before the face of God with complaisance and delight. Psalms 140:13; compare Psalms 17:15.
At thy right hand Also the place of honour and felicity. See 1 Kings 2:19; Matthew 25:33-34.
For evermore The duration of this fullness of joy, and these pleasures, shall be as lasting as the subject of them. The language belongs to eternity, and this wonderful foregleam of eternal life in Christ, through the resurrection, has nothing to exceed it in the Old Testament.
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