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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 119:115

Psalms 119:115Depart from me, ye evil-doers; for I will keep the commandments of my God.“Go!” and they go“You go your way,” he says in effect, “and I will go mine; I am for obedience, you are not for that, and you are asking the wrong man to be your companion. Away to your own sort!”I. Here is a dismissal that there is absolutely no help for if we will be faithful to God. So incongruous are evil companionships. Two attempting to walk together who as to destination and route are not agreed!... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 119:116

Psalms 119:116Let me not be ashamed of my hope. The Christian’s sheet-anchorI. That we may not at last be ashamed of our hope, it must originate in a change of the temper of the heart. The carnal mind must be regenerated. Old things must pass away and all things become new. God must be loved and Christ received by faith.II. That we may not at last be ashamed of our hope, it must render us holy. “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Now Christ can, in no other sense, be in the believer, than as... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 119:117

Psalms 119:117Held Thou me up, and I shall be safe. The Christian’s securityI. The man of god presenting himself before the throne of grace, with a humble acknowledgment of his sense of exposure to difficulty and danger, and his sense of his own helplessness in himself. No man ever went to the Lord and said, “Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe,” but the man who felt that he was exposed to danger, and that he was too weak to take care of himself.II. The conduct of a Christian man under all... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 119:120

Psalms 119:120My flesh trembleth for fear of Thee; and I am afraid of Thy judgments.The trembling fleshI. The psalmist, in this section, contemplates God’s wrath against sinners (verses 118, 119). Then apparently his thought goes on to his own case, and what is likely to be his own sentence. He is disturbed by the contemplation of that sharp judgment which he must undergo in the day when his soul shall go forth from the body.II. The expression which he uses is a very remarkable one. “My flesh... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:97

Psa 119:97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day. Ver. 97. O how love I thy law! ] Such a pang of love he felt as could not otherwise be vented but by a pathetic exclamation; and this was wrought in him by the thoughts of the largeness and lastingness of God’s law. Plato prized one book (called Sophron) above all the rest, whereof he had many. Richard de Bury, bishop of Durham (Floruit, A. D. 1333), as he had more books than all the bishops of England besides, so in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:98

Psa 119:98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they [are] ever with me. Ver. 98. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies ] So that I outwit them; and my holy simplicity is too hard for their sinful subtlety. "Be wise as serpents." For they are ever with me ] Heb. It is ever with me, that is, every one of thy commandments; I am expert in them; or, It is mine, I have made them mine own by meditation; I have turned them in succum et... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:99

Psa 119:99 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 they ever taught me, while I referred all to practice; and so came to know more of God’s mind than they did. A friend, saith Chrysostom, that is acquainted with his friend, will get out the meaning of a letter or phrase which another could not that is a stranger; so it is in the Scripture.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:100

Psa 119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. Ver. 100. I understand more than the ancients ] Whom yet age, use, and experience have taught much; but by the practical study of the word I outgo them all; with reference to those hoary heads, the seniors of the Synedrion, be it spoken, Non prolixa facit sapientem barba. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:101

Psa 119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. Ver. 101. I have refrained my feet, &c. ] I have clapped up my unruly affections close prisoners, and hampered them; abandoning every error in judgment and enormity in practice. That I might keep thy word ] Which I shall never do but by self-denial and mortification. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:102

Psa 119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Ver. 102. I have not departed from thy judyments ] i.e. From thy law, which is called judgments, because God will thereby judge the world. For thou hast taught me ] sc. To cleave close unto them with full purpose of heart; and not to be drawn aside by any either allurement or fright. read more

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